Professor Henry Widdowson ist ein Theoretiker der Sprache und ihres Unterrichts, dessen umfangreiche Schriften die wichtigsten Bereiche des Fachs behandelt haben. Er verteidigt konsequent klares Denken und klare Ideenpräsentation. Seine Arbeit war wegweisend für die Etablierung der angewandten Linguistik und ihrer Untersuchungsweise. Für den internationalen Englischunterricht war er wahrscheinlich der einflussreichste Vordenker des späten zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts.
Discourse analysis is the study of spoken and written language in its social and psychological context. This book explains the relevant theory, and applies it to classroom activities designed to improve students' discourse skills. The teacher is then shown how these activities may be further developed in specific teaching situations.
This is an introduction to linguistics, the study of human language. The author provides a succinct but lucid outline of the ways in which language has been defined, described, and explored, and guides readers towards further exploration of their own.
What roles do teachers and learners play in classroom language learning, and what kinds of activities and materials bring them into the most effective partnership? This book has the aim of helping teachers to discover for themselves the best ways of fostering co-operative learning in their own classrooms. Teaching and learning as social activities. What is a role? Factors influencing teacher and learner roles. Teacher and learner roles in the classroom. Teaching tasks and teaching strategies. Teaching style. Instructional tasks, strategies, materials and resources. Language learning tasks and activities. Learning groups. The individual learner. Classroom processes. Investigating teacher and learner roles.
A History of English Language Teaching (Oxford Applied Linguistics)
This revised and updated history covers the Renaissance to the present day, covering all the important phases of the history of English language teaching from a global perspective.