Linguistics, language teaching and language acquisition : the interdependence of theory, practice and research / James E. Alatis, editor.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Alatis, James E.

Conference Name:

Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (1990)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Linguistics--Congresses.

Linguistics.

Language and languages--Study and teaching--Congresses.

Language and languages.

Language and languages--Study and teaching.

Language acquisition--Congresses.

Language acquisition.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

viii, 523 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Georgetown Univ. Press, [1990]

Contents:

Opening remarks / Rita Esquivel (Director, Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Language Affairs, U.S. Department of Education) 5

Presentation of the Dean's Medal to John Bissell Carroll (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, emeritus) / James E. Alatis (Dean, Georgetown University School of Languages and Linguistics) 7

Sir John Lyons: An introduction / James E. Alatis (Chair, Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1990) 9

Linguistics: Theory, practice and research / Sir John Lyons (Master, Trinity Hall, Cambridge University) 11

In memoriam: Peter Strevens S. Pitt Corder / H. G. Widdowson (University of London), Larry Selinker (University of Michigan), James E. Alatis (Georgetown University) 31

Discourses of enquiry and conditions of relevance / H. G. Widdowson (University of London) 37

Mental representations and language in action / Wilga M. Rivers (Harvand University, emerita) 49

Semiotic theory and L2 practice / John W. Oller, Jr. (University of New Mexico) 65

Cognitive and social correlates and consequences of additive bilingualism / G. Richard Tucker (Center for Applied Linguistics) 90

A citation analysis of the diffusion of linguistic and language acquisition theory and research to the English language learning community / Steven J. Gaies (University of Northern Iowa) 102

Theory, practice and research: Strange or blissful bedfellows? / Suzanne Flynn (Masschusetts Institute of Technology) 112

Mountains are not cones: What can we learn from chaos? / Roger Bowers (English Language and Literature Division, The British Council) 123

Reframing contrastive analysis / Larry Selinker (University of Michigan) 137

Classroom shock / Richard Lutz (Georgetown University) 144

Nativized English and interlanguages: Another look / Peter Lowenberg (Georgetown University) 157

The role of the amygdala as a mediator of acculturation and cognition in second language acquisition / John Schumann (University of California at Los Angeles) 169

A situational analysis of the semantics of can / Yugi Suzuki (Keio University) 177

Natural vs. classroom input: Advantages and disadvantages for beginning language students / Tracy Terrell (University of California at San Diego) 193

Communicative language teaching: Definitions and directions / Sandra Savignon (University of Illinois) 207

Integrating theory and practice in second language teacher education: The role of action research / Jack Richards (City Polytechnic of Hong Kong) 218

An evaluation of semi-direct speaking tests as measures of oral proficiency / Charles Stansfield (Center for Applied Linguistics) 228

Fossils or forests? The challenge of teaching for proficiency in the secondary schools / Rebecca M. Valette (Boston College) 235

Data-based language analysis and TESL / Marianne Celce-Murcia (University of California at Los Angeles) 245

On the need for a theory of language teaching / Diane Larsen-Freeman (Experiment in International Living) 261

Knowledge-based inferencing in second language comprehension / Elizabeth Bernhardt (The Ohio State University) 271

Bringing cultural literacy into the foreign language classroom through video / Thomas Garza (Foreign Service Institute) 285

Personal perceptions: Error feedback in language acquisition / Gail L. Nemetz Robinson (Center for Language and Crosscultural Skills) 293

Linguistic hypothesis testing in neural networks / Donald Loritz (Georgetown University) 294

Improving foreign language listening comprehension / Joan Rubin (The University of Pennsylvania) 309

Trends and developments in listening comprehension: Theory and practice / Joan Morley (University of Michigan) 317

Theory, practice, research, and professionalization of the field of teaching English to speakers of other languages / Richard A. Orem (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) 338

Analyzing register variation among written texts: A second language teaching method / Jeffrey Connor-Linton (Georgetown University) 345

Paving the way for proficiency / Viktor Litwinski (Foreign Service Institute) 360

Reading, writing, form, and content / Stephen Krashen (University of Southern California) 364

Why teach grammar? / Louis G. Alexander (London, England) 377

M & Ms for language classrooms: Another look at motivation / H. Douglas Brown (San Francisco State University) 383

Research: teaching / Sin: Confession

An analogy for the times / June Phillips (Tennessee Foreign Language Institute) 394

The language of French immersion students: Implications for theory and practice / Merrill Swain (The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education) 401

Owls and doves: Cognition, personality and learning success / Madeline Ehrman (Foreign Service Institute) 413

Missing link: Evidence from research on language learning styles and strategies / Rebecca Oxford (The University of Alabama) 438

Language learning in a study abroad context: The effects of interactive and non-interactive out-of-class contact on grammatical achievement and oral proficiency / Barbara Freed (Carnegie-Mellon University) 459

The cognitive basis for second language instruction / Michael O'Malley (Georgetown University) 478

Cognitive instruction in the second language classroom / Anna Uhl Chamot (Georgetown University) 496

What kind of theory? What kind of practice? What kind of research? / Nina Garrett (Carnegie-Mellon University) 514.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0878401253

OCLC:

23239907