Devised in collaboration with the Open University and Macquarie University, Australia, this text is specifically designed for the postgraduate student market, as well as for teachers of English as a second or foreign language throughout the world. This reader includes specially commissioned pieces as well as classic texts, and provides a global perspective on the changing uses and forms of English and its impact on language teaching contexts. Students' skills in analysing these forms will be developed through an examination of the major functional models and their strengths and weaknesses.
Devised in collaboration with the Open University and Macquarie University, Australia, this text is specifically designed for the postgraduate student...
This text presents the student with three contemporary approaches for investigating text, practices and contexts in which language-related problems are implicated.
This text presents the student with three contemporary approaches for investigating text, practices and contexts in which language-related problems ar...
This engaging textbook bridges the gap between traditional and functional grammar. Starting with a traditional approach, students will develop a firm grasp of traditional tools for analysis and learn how SFG (Systemic Functional grammar) can be used to enrich the traditional formal approach.
This engaging textbook bridges the gap between traditional and functional grammar. Starting with a traditional approach, students will develop a firm ...
Applied Linguistics Methods: A Reader presents the student with three contemporary approaches for investigating text, practices and contexts in which language-related problems are implicated. Divided into three parts, the reader focuses in turn on the different approaches, showing how each is relevant to addressing real world problems, including those relating to contemporary educational practices.
Part One introduces the reader to Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) as an approach particularly well suited to the description of language and language-related problems in...
Applied Linguistics Methods: A Reader presents the student with three contemporary approaches for investigating text, practices and contex...
Historical Discourse analyses the importance of the language of time, cause and evaluation in both texts which students at secondary school are required to read, and their own writing for assessment. In contrast to studies which have denied that history has a specialised language, Caroline Coffin demonstrates through a detailed study of historical texts, that writing about the past requires different genres, lexical and grammatical structures. In this analysis, language emerges as a powerful tool for making meaning in historical writing.
Presupposing no prior knowledge of...
Historical Discourse analyses the importance of the language of time, cause and evaluation in both texts which students at secondary school ...
Historical Discourse analyses the importance of the language of time, cause and evaluation in both texts which students at secondary school are required to read, and their own writing for assessment. In contrast to studies which have denied that history has a specialised language, Caroline Coffin demonstrates through a detailed study of historical texts, that writing about the past requires different genres, lexical and grammatical structures. In this analysis, language emerges as a powerful tool for making meaning in historical writing.
Presupposing no prior knowledge of...
Historical Discourse analyses the importance of the language of time, cause and evaluation in both texts which students at secondary school a...
