Whys and Therefores: A Rational Look at the English Language - Hardcover

Rutherford, William E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1908049901 ISBN 13: 9781908049902

Verlag: Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2011

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Whys & Therefores aids the reader to arrive at generalizations for the shape of the English language: words, grammar, meaning, sound and spelling. The format asopted throughout is that of a light-hearted ongoing Socratic dialogue between a mentor and a pupil. The intended effects of such activity are: awareness of what it means to `know' a language; reliance upon natiave-language intuition; discovery of what one didn't know that one already `knows' about the language; use of ungrammaticality as an investigative tool; healthy questioning of received facts about language; from so-called experts; and usefulness of language paly.

Whys & Therefores can be read from start to finish, dipped into at random, expanded upon, even acted out. The language phenomena treated therein are indexed and tabbed to the dialogues where they are discussed, making Why & Therefores a valuable source of reference.

Why & Therefores is intended as an entertaining yet serious do-it-yourself book about aspects of English language from and meaning. However, it will also prove useful to schools as classroom material to tbe further exploited by the instructor in free-range dialogue from, and to institutions offering teacher training in rational-based instructional procedures for English language education in the schools.

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William Rutherford is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the University of Southern California. His main educational interests have represented an intersection of research in language acquisition, in grammatical theory, and in psycholinguistic theories of language learnability. For ten years, Professor Rutherford was co-general editor of the monograph series Language Acquisition and Language Disorders and in 1995 he was the recipient of a festschrift, The Current State of Interlanguage: Studies in Honor of William E. Rutherford (Benjamins). From 1998 until his retirement he was engaged in the application of computer tools in the service of computerized data-bases of L2 learner language designed to serve L2 acquisition researchers. Among his books are Second Language Grammar: Learning and Teaching (Longman) and Workbook in the Structure of English: Linguistic Principles and Language Acquisition (Blackwell). Professor Rutherford's current interest is the potential for early education of rational inquiry as an investigative tool of the sciences and especially cognitive science (e.g. linguistics).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Equinox Publishing Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1908049901
• ISBN 13: 9781908049902
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 280
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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