Lingvistika

This study draws on recent language acquisition research to present a language teaching programme based on the use of "prefabricated" language. The authors demonstrate that the unit of language they term "the lexical phase" can serve as a basis for both second and foreign language learning.

First Prize English-Speaking Union's Duke of Edinburgh Book Competition

This is an attempt to redraw the boundaries of foreign language study. It focuses attention on cultural knowledge not just as a necessary aspect of communicative competence right

Winner MLA Kenneth W Mildenberegr Prize

This book develops a rational approach to the teaching of language as communication, based on a careful consideration of the nature of language and of the language user's activities. It will stimulate all language teachers to investigate the ideas that inform their own practice.

This volume critically reviews the most prominent issues in language teaching today and relates them to general perspectives on the nature of language and of language teaching and learning.

This volume provides a wide-ranging overview of the diverse issues in applied linguistics today. The contributors consider the relation of their own areas of enquiry both to professional practice and to the discipline as a whole.

This study takes a perspective on the nature of poetry and follows it through to a proposal for teaching poetry. Its principles are then put into practice through a demonstration of classroom procedures using original poems writing.

This work represents a major statement of the current research being conducted on the learning of second languages from a sociocultural perspective. Specific topics covered include: L1 mediation in the acquisition of L2 grammar; and gestural mediation in a second language.

This text discusses the need for foreign language programmes to teach literacy. It suggests approaches to curriculum development using a wide range of modern media texts such as newspapers a basis for cultural analysis.

This work discusses the design of language tests with a firm theoretical base. It looks at psychological influences on language learning and ways they could be applied in teaching and testing.

Winner MLA Kenneth W Mildenberg Prize

A comprehensive overview of research methodology in applied linguistics which describes the various stages of qualitative and quantitative investigations, from collecting the data to reporting the results.

Key features
Practical, hands-on focus.
Accessible style, even when discussing statistical methods.
Integrated coverage of both qualitative and quantitative research.
Pioneering discussion of mixed methods research in applied linguistics.
Examples of how to report research results.

Controversies in Applied Linguistics presents controversies between prominent scholars over issues where they hold very different postions. Five sections contain 33 key articles (reprinted in their entirety) dealing with 9 topics. Each unit is prefaced by an introduction to the controversy in question.

The sections are headed - The Global Spread of English, Corpus Linguistics and Language Teaching, Critical Discourse Analysis, Second Language Acquisition and The Nature of Apllied Linguistics.

This book goes back to basics by investigating fundamental assumptions about the way English should be defined and taught as a school subject. It looks at different attitudes to English, and developments in its description, and it critically examines current proposals for the specification of course content and classroom methodology, with particular reference to ideas about authenticity and task-based learning.