Understanding English: An Introduction to the Associative Model of English - Softcover

Buckmaster, Robert A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1724316427 ISBN 13: 9781724316424

Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018

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Understanding English: An introduction to the Associative Model of EnglishUsing language is the act of expressing meaning. It is also an experience: we experience language at the time of articulation. We use the language to communicate meanings of various kinds and through language achieve our many possible aims. Our meanings arise from the associations we make between words.The Associative Model of English is a way of understanding the process of how we use English at the time of articulation (when we speak-hear) or when we read. It is a linear dependency relation model of language. Key concepts include Start Here and Placement Associations, Noun and Verb Pathways and Preposition-fronted Phrases.Speakers use their Prospective Grammar to construct utterances, and their Retrospective Grammar to monitor the fitness of their articulated speech. Listeners use their Retrospective Grammar to construct an understanding of the Accumulated-Provisional Meaning of the utterance and their Prospective Grammar to anticipate and develop their understanding of the further text they will hear. The speaker will be making associations between words clear (or obscure) enough for their purposes. Listeners will be trying to understand the associations (or, if necessary) read between the lines. Nouns are defined and described in Noun Pathways until they are elaborated enough for the speaker's purpose. Verbs are selected using the heuristic: use the simplest form available in the Verb Pathway.Understanding English is a clear and easily applicable approach to exploring the meanings of English through a meaning-focused dependency relation model. By using the ideas in this short introduction to the Associative Model you will deepen your understanding of how English is used. You will also be able to effectively diagram sentences (and texts) to show the associations between words and how they 'work' as meaning units.

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Rob Buckmaster is an independent language researcher, teacher, teacher trainer, consultant and writer. He has been working in English language teaching since 1991, and has taught and trained widely in central and eastern Europe, central Asia, northern and southern Africa. He first taught in Warsaw for ten years: at private language schools, and for the British Council. While in Poland, he completed his Cambridge Diploma and Advanced Diploma in Language Teaching Management. He then moved to Estonia to manage the Justice and Home Affairs Peacekeeping English Project for the British Council. While there, he trained police and boarder guard teachers from all over the region, and completed his Masters in Education in E-Learning. After closing all the Peacekeeping projects in Estonia and Latvia in 2006, he moved to Latvia and taught for International House Riga before becoming Director of Studies for five years. He now works freelance for Buckmaster Consulting and McIlwraith Education, providing expert advice to Ministries of Education and Defence, and educational institutions, all over the world. Rob Buckmaster is the author of 'Teaching English: Being the best' (with Emma Valahu; 2016), the 'Ideas of English Grammar (2017), 'Understanding English' (2018), and of numerous articles on teaching English. His work can be seen at www.rbuckmaster.com. He is the founder of the English Ideas Project; www.englishideas.org. He currently lives in Latvia with his family.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1724316427
• ISBN 13: 9781724316424
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 112
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