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Reflections on Language and Language Learning
In honour of Arthur van Essen
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.
[Not in series, 109] 2001. xxxiv, 366 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 21 October 2008
Published online on 21 October 2008
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Language and language learning: An introduction | pp. xi–xviii
- Arthur van Essen: as seen by another professional, the late W. R. Lee OBE MA PHD | pp. xix–xx
- List of Arthur van Essen’s publications | pp. xxi–xxx
- List of Contributors | pp. xxxi–xxxiv
- Part One. History of Linguistics
- 1. Linguistics, historicism and the humanitiesJan Koster | pp. 3–19
- 2. The man who knew too much: J. M. Hoogvliet as a teacher and theoretician of languageJan Noordegraaf | pp. 21–33
- 3. Applied linguistics, old and newBondi Sciarone | pp. 35–46
- 4. Karl Bühler’s child psychology: Methodological preliminariesFrank J.M. Vonk | pp. 47–60
- Part Two: Essays
- 5. An exploration of the art and science debate in language educationDavid Block | pp. 63–74
- 6. Phonology, lexical semantics and syntax in aphasia and natural language acquisition in adulthoodRoelien Bastiaanse | pp. 75–90
- 7. Language teaching as political actionMichael Byram | pp. 91–103
- 8. How’s this for fun? The role of humour in the ELT classroom and ELT teaching materialsPéter Medgyes | pp. 105–118
- 9. Identity and differentiation of the lexicon through language corporaNatalia Gvishiani | pp. 119–129
- 10. ESP a variety of English and/or a type of language course?Uta Thürmer | pp. 131–139
- 11. Categorising in discourse: The case of Dutch anderTitus Ensink and Harrie Mazeland | pp. 141–153
- 12. SVOV in German and Dutch: Interface between discourse prominence and subject identification as a parsing requirementWerner Abraham | pp. 155–167
- Part Three: Studies
- 13. Literacy in Dutch of poorly schooled adult immigrants from the Netherlands AntillesJan Berenst | pp. 171–184
- 14. Medical discourse as professional and institutional action: Challenges to teaching and researching languages for special purposesChristopher N. Candlin | pp. 185–207
- 15. Content- and language-integrated learning, culture of education and learning theoriesPiet Van de Craen | pp. 209–220
- 16. Content-based language teaching: Language in the mathematics classroomJ.Y. Deen and Hilde Hacquebord | pp. 221–236
- 17. Theoretical approaches to second-language learner varietiesPeter Jordens | pp. 237–252
- 18. The role of form in language learningLeo van Lier | pp. 253–266
- 19. A methodology for evaluating the effectiveness of vocabulary treatmentsPaul Meara and Ignacio Rodríguez Sánchez | pp. 267–278
- 20. The place of knowledge about language in the mother tongue and foreign language curriculumRosamond Mitchell and Christopher Brumfit | pp. 279–292
- Part Four: Reports
- 21. Towards an alphabetical grammar of Modern Israeli HebrewWout J. van Bekkum and Hans Hamburger | pp. 295–309
- 22. The use of word frequency data in the teaching of English as an alternative/additional language: Reflections on recent EET-list experience and experimentsMichaël Goethals | pp. 311–323
- 23. Helping advanced EFL learners improve their written English through self-correction tasksPierre Kouraogo | pp. 325–339
- 24. A web-based foreign-language assistantJohn Nerbonne and Petra Smit | pp. 341–348
- 25. Subject didactics as the science of the foreign-language teaching professionAud Marit Simensen | pp. 349–361
- Index | pp. 363–366
“This book contains papers of interest to many language professionals, but it is most likely to complement the libraries of scholars in applied linguistics who tread the line between SLA and its application to teaching and who are interested in a kaleidoscopic view of contemporary, mostly European work in the field.”
John Angell, University of South Florida, in Studies in Second Language Acquisition Vol.26:1, 2003.
“This volume is indeed multidisciplinary, as the editors claims, and does, I think, go beyond the traditional festschrift in that it contains some of the finest papers in applied linguistics and educational linguistics to date.”
Li Wei, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, in The English Teacher: An International Journal, Vol. 6 (3), November 2003
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