Reflections on language and language learning : in honour of Arthur van Essen / edited by Marcel Bax, Jan-Wouter Zwart.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bax, Marcel.

Zwart, C. Jan-Wouter.

Essen, A. J. van.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Study and teaching.

Language and languages.

Linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (400 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub., c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Reflections on Language and Language Learning: In honour of Arthur van Essen, thirty-one leading language scholars and educational linguists in the Netherlands and abroad with whom over the years Professor van Essen, one of the grandees of applied linguistics, has collaborated provide original essays and studies which discuss the most recent insights and trends in the fields of linguistics and foreign language teaching. While interdisciplinary in scope, the volume encompasses theoretical advances in (educational) linguistic thinking; for example, the perceptive articles written by Michael Byram, Christopher N. Candlin, Natalia Gvishiani, Peter Jordens, Jan Koster, Leo van Lier, and Bondi Sciarone - as well as a sample of the latest methodological developments in areas such as ELT, LSP, and content-based language teaching; cases in point are the useful contributions by Jeanine Deen & Hilde Hacquebord, Michaël Goethals, Paul Meara & Ignacio Rodríguez Sánchez, Rosamond Mitchell & Christopher Brumfit, and Uta Thürmer.

Contents:

Reflections on Language and Language Learning

Title page

LCC data

Arthur van Essen

Contents

Language and language learning: An introduction

List of Arthur van Essen's publications

Contributors

Part One: History of linguistics

Chapter 1: Linguistics, historicism and the humanities

Chapter 2: The man who knew too much

Chapter 3: Applied linguistics, old and new

Part Two: Essays

Chapter 5: An exploration of the art and science debate in language education

Chapter 6: Phonology, lexical semantics and syntax in aphasia and natural language acquisition in adulthood

Chapter 7: Language teaching as political action

Chapter 8: How's this for fun?

Chapter 9: Identity and differentiation of the lexicon through language corpora

Chapter 10: ESP -a variety of English and/or a type of language course?

Chapter 11: Categorising in discourse

Chapter 12: SVOV in German and Dutch

Part Three: Studies

Chapter 13: Literacy in Dutch of poorly schooled adult immigrants from the Netherlands Antilles

Chapter 14: Medical discourse as professional and institutional action

Chapter 15: Content-and language-integrated learning,culture of education and learning theories

Chapter 16: Content-based language teaching

Chapter 17: Theoretical approaches to second-language learner varieties

Chapter 18: The role of form in language learning

Chapter 19: A methodology for evaluating the effectiveness of vocabulary treatments

Chapter 20: The place of knowledge about language in the mother tongue and foreign-language curriculum

Part Four: Reports

Chapter 21: Towards an alphabetical grammar of Modern Israeli Hebrew

Chapter 22: The use of word frequency data in the teaching of English as an alternative/additional language.

Chapter 23: Helping advanced EFL learners improve their written English through self-correction tasks

Chapter 24: A web-based foreign-language assistant

Chapter 25: Subject didactics as the science of the foreign-language teaching profession

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612161681

9781282161689

1282161687

9789027297167

9027297169