Aspects of Language TeachingProfessor Widdowson provides a critical review of the most prominent issues in language teaching today - among them the relevance of theoretical enquiry to practical pedagogy, and the relationship between grammar and discourse in communicative language teaching. He relates these issues to general perspectives on the nature of language and language learning. |
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activity actually analysis Applied Linguistics appraisal approach to language aspects associated assumption authentic B. F. Skinner behaviour Bialystok Brumfit Chapter classroom communicative approach communicative competence communicative grammar communicative language teaching competence comprehensible input conceptual context course curriculum defined depends effective engagement English enquiry evaluation example experience farmer formal function ideas interaction interlanguage interpretation issues kill duckling kind Krashen language learning language pedagogy language teaching learner autonomy lexical items lexis Lord Raglan matter mediation methodology Monitor theory morpheme natural language natural learning negotiation negotiation of meaning notion notional/functional syllabus Oxford University Press particular perspective Prabhu practice pragmatic problem procedures process of learning proposed pupils purpose question realization reference relationship relevance role schematic knowledge second language acquisition semantic sentences social specific structural syllabus syllabus design systemic knowledge tasks techniques theory validity Widdowson words