Structure and meaning in English : a guide for teachers / Graeme Kennedy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kennedy, Graeme D., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers.

English language.

English language--Grammar--Study and teaching.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (407 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Structure and Meaning in English is designed to help teachers of English develop an understanding of those aspects of English which are especially relevant for learners who speak other languages. Using corpus research, Graeme Kennedy cuts to the heart of what is important in the teaching of English. The book provides pedagogically- relevant information about English at the levels of sounds, words, sentences and texts. It draws attention to those linguistic items and processes which research has shown are typically hard for learners and which lead to errors.Each chapter

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; Grammar and grammars; Studying grammar; Teaching grammar to learners of English; Chapter 1: The sounds of English; Objectives; 1.1 Speech sounds; 1.1.1 Sounds and symbols; 1.1.2 Practice in reading a phonemic transcription; 1.1.3 Food for thought on English spelling; 1.1.4 Phonemes and allophones; 1.2 The speech process and the organs of speech; 1.2.1 The airstream; 1.2.2 Voicing; 1.2.3 The oral-nasal process; 1.2.4 Advising learners; 1.3 English consonants; 1.3.1 Place of articulation

1.3.2 Manner of articulation1.3.3 Voicing; 1.4 English vowels; 1.5 The distribution of English sounds; 1.5.1 Frequency of English phonemes; 1.5.2 Redundancy; 1.5.3 The positions that phonemes can occur in; 1.5.4 English consonant clusters; 1.5.5 Vowel sequences; 1.5.6 The effect of the environment in which sounds occur; 1.5.6.1 Linking; 1.5.6.2 Rhoticity; 1.5.6.3 Elision; 1.5.6.4 Assimilation; 1.5.6.5 Vowel length; 1.6 Prosodic features; 1.6.1 Stress; 1.6.1.1 Function word stress; 1.6.1.2 Content word stress; 1.6.1.3 Sentence stress and rhythm; 1.6.2 Intonation; 1.6.2.1 Intonation patterns

1.6.2.2 Functions of intonation patterns1.7 Accents; 1.8 Learners' difficulties with English sounds; 1.8.1 Common problems; 1.8.2 Predicting pronunciation difficulties for learners of English; Chapter 2: Words and their meanings; Objectives; 2.1 Categories of words; 2.1.1 What is a word?; 2.1.2 Function words and content words; 2.1.3 Word classes; 2.1.4 Word lemmas; 2.1.5 Word families; 2.2 Word meanings and functions; 2.2.1 Sense; 2.2.2 Reference; 2.2.3 Connotation; 2.2.4 Word associations; 2.2.5 Semantic components of words; 2.2.6 Prototypes; 2.2.7 Extended meaning; 2.2.8 Polysemy

2.2.9 Homonymy2.2.10 Synonymy; 2.2.11 Antonymy; 2.2.12 Hyponymy; 2.3 Categories of meaning; 2.3.1 Propositional meaning; 2.3.2 Modal meaning; 2.3.3 Social meaning; 2.4 Word structure and word formation; 2.4.1 Roots and affixes; 2.4.2 Types of affixes; 2.4.2.1 Inflectional affixes; 2.4.2.2 Derivational affixes; 2.4.3 Greek and Latin affixes; 2.4.4 Word formation; 2.4.4.1 Borrowing; 2.4.4.2 Word combinations; 2.4.4.3 Blends; 2.4.4.4 Conversion; 2.4.4.5 Abbreviations; 2.4.4.6 Acronyms; 2.5 Word compounds and collocations; 2.5.1 Compounds; 2.5.2 Collocations; 2.6 Word distribution

2.6.1 High frequency words2.6.2 Academic words; 2.6.3 Technical words; 2.6.4 Low frequency words; 2.6.5 Information on word frequency from the British National Corpus; 2.6.6 An academic word list (AWL); Chapter 3: Simple sentence parts, structures and functions; Objectives; 3.1 Utterances and sentences; 3.2 Constituents and structures of simple sentences; 3.2.1 Word order; 3.2.2 Phrases; 3.2.3 Clause elements; 3.2.3.1 Subject; 3.2.3.2 Predicate; 3.3 Clause patterns; 3.3.1 Major clause patterns; 3.3.1.1 Pattern 1: SV; 3.3.1.2 Pattern 2: SVO; 3.3.1.3 Pattern 3: SVC; 3.3.1.4 Pattern 4: SVA

3.3.1.5 Pattern 5: SVOO

Notes:

"First published 2003 by Pearson Education Limited"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 3, 2014).

ISBN:

1-138-17454-8

1-317-86972-9

1-315-83605-X

1-317-86971-0

1-281-38478-X

9786611384784

1-4082-1172-6

9781315836058

OCLC:

874151816