A New Approach to English Pedagogical Grammar: The Order of Meanings

ISBN-13: 9781138227118 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 244 str.

Opis

This book proposes Meaning-order Approach to Pedagogical Grammar (MAP Grammar) as a practical pedagogical approach in ESL and EFL contexts. By focusing on the order of meaning in a sentence, MAP Grammar distills current descriptive sentence structures into one meaning-based sentence structure for teaching and learning.

O autorze

Akira Tajino is Professor of Educational Linguistics and Director of the International Academic Research and Resource Center for Language Education (i-ARRC) at Kyoto University, Japan. His research interests include EAP, classroom research, and pedagogical grammar. He is a recipient of the JACET (Japan Association of College English Teachers) Award for excellence in teaching (2011) and the JACET Award for excellence in academic publication (2014). He is the (co) author/editor of more than 20 books, including Researching Language Teaching and Learning: An Integration of Practice and Theory (Peter Lang, 2009) and Team Teaching and Team Learning in the Language Classroom: Collaboration for Innovation in ELT (Routledge, 2016), and has published articles in academic and professional journals. He has served on the editorial panel of several journals, including Oxford’s ELT Journal.