Understanding Context in Language Use and Teaching

Understanding Context in Language Use and Teaching

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  • Author: Éva Illés
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1000060438
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 220

This book is a guide to understanding and applying the essential, heretofore elusive, notion of context in language study and pedagogy. Éva Illés offers a new, critical, systematic theoretical framework, then applies that framework to practical interactions and issues in communicative language teaching rooted in English as a Lingua Franca. By linking theory and practice for research and teaching around the world, this book brings a new awareness of how context can be conceptualised and related to language pedagogy to advanced students, teachers, teacher educators and researchers of language teaching, applied linguistics and pragmatics.


Context in Language Learning and Language Understanding

Context in Language Learning and Language Understanding

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  • Author: Kirsten Malmkjær
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9780521633550
  • Category : Foreign Language Study
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 212

The papers in this volume represent varied views on the role of context in language learning.


Discourse and Context in Language Teaching

Discourse and Context in Language Teaching

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  • Author: Marianne Celce-Murcia
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 0521648378
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 287

Recommends that language teachers incorporate discourse and pragmatics in their teaching if they wish to implement a communicative approach in their classrooms. The authors show how a discourse perspective can enhance the teaching of traditional areas of linguistic knowledge and language skills.


English Language Teaching in Its Social Context

English Language Teaching in Its Social Context

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  • Author: Christopher Candlin
  • Publisher: Psychology Press
  • ISBN: 9780415241212
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 366

This text includes a selection of commissioned and classic articles that introduce a range of theories of second language acquisition and the contested explanations of effective language learning.


The Context of Foreign Language Teaching

The Context of Foreign Language Teaching

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  • Author: Leon A. Jakobovits
  • Publisher:
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  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 308

This book applies sociolinguistics, or sociology, to the problem of teaching foreign languages. The authors use a method they call Transactional Engineering Analysis, employing the findings of sociology to the teaching of the basic skills in language learning. This method uses pattern practices to synthesize the elements of pronunciation, vocabulary, and sentence pattern recognition to allow language learners to absorb the rules governing conversational interchanges in the subject language. The appendices include examples of the patterns illustrated in the preceding text.


Discourse and Context in Language Teaching

Discourse and Context in Language Teaching

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  • Author: Marianne Celce-Murcia
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 0521640555
  • Category : Foreign Language Study
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 235

Recommends that language teachers incorporate discourse and pragmatics in their teaching if they wish to implement a communicative approach in their classrooms. The authors show how a discourse perspective can enhance the teaching of traditional areas of linguistic knowledge and language skills.


Context and Culture in Language Teaching and Learning

Context and Culture in Language Teaching and Learning

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  • Author: Michael Byram
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 9781853596575
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 116

The chapters in this book all address the significance of the relationship between the aims and methods of language teaching and the contexts in which it takes place. Some consider the implications for the ways in which we research language teaching; others present the results of research and development work.


Understanding Language Classroom Contexts

Understanding Language Classroom Contexts

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  • Author: Martin Wedell
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
  • ISBN: 1441102450
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 249

Arguably the whole point of education is to effect change in what people know and are able to do. Globalization has contributed to a common perception worldwide of the need to introduce changes to the teaching and learning of languages. The success of many attempts to do so has been limited by insufficient consideration of implementation contexts. Understanding Language Classroom Contexts explores and illustrates how what happens in any (language) classroom is influenced by (and can be an influence on) the contexts in which it is situated. A clear understanding of these influences is thus the starting point for planning effective change. The book considers many visible and invisible features of the multiple layers of any context, and provides a framework for understanding the types of factors that may influence whether changes (planned by a teacher or externally initiated) are likely to be successful. The book will help teachers (and educational managers or change planners outside the classroom) to understand why their classrooms are as they are and so to make informed decisions about what can or cannot (or not easily) be changed, and suggests how any changes might be appropriately managed.


Understanding English Language Teaching in EFL Context

Understanding English Language Teaching in EFL Context

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  • Author: Kamal Ud Din
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISBN: 100083980X
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 173

This volume is comprehensively designed to help prospective teachers of English Language (EL), and teachers specializing in English as a foreign language (EFL), mainly in South Asian countries. It analyses the application of ELT theories, concepts, and methods to sharpen their understanding of the various techniques used for teaching English effectively in the EFL context. The book discusses the basic concepts of language aimed to develop a sense of the language phenomenon as a unique human attribute. It covers the theories of language from various disciplines such as biology, sociology, psychology, and linguistics. The book explains the underlying structures or components that shape the edifice of languages such as phonology, morphology, syntax, grammar, phonetics, semantics, and pragmatics. While taking the reader through language learning theories with a focus on English as the second language, it discusses the different teaching methods that can be adopted by teachers in classroom settings. The book will be of interest to teachers, students and researchers of education, teacher education, and ELT. It will also be useful for educators, English language teachers, language learners, professionals working in the field of education and language, and those who aspire to teach and learn English in foreign context.


Context and Culture in Language Teaching

Context and Culture in Language Teaching

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  • Author: Claire Kramsch
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 9780194371872
  • Category : Foreign Language Study
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 308

"This book takes cultural knowledge in language learning not only as a necessary aspect of communicative competence, but as an educational objective in its own right. If the aim of foreign language education is to foster cross-cultural awareness and self-realization, language pedagogy needs to come to grips with a range of fundamental issues: what do we mean by cultural context? Can discourse practices be taught like rules of grammar? What role does literature play in the development of second language literacy? How can learners acquire both an insider's and an outsider's understanding of the foreign culture as expressed through its language? By exploring these and other issues, the book can help language teachers reflect on their profession and place it within its larger societal and educational context. In turn, they can help learners become not only skilful users of the language, but also active architects of a new cross-cultural world order.".