Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1991. Linguistics and Language Pedagogy: The State of the Art

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 2
ISBN......Page 3
Contents......Page 4
Acknowledgments and Permissions......Page 8
Welcoming Remarks......Page 9
Some Words of Greeting......Page 13
H.G. Widdowson: An Introduction......Page 17
The Description and Prescription of Language......Page 19
`Mistaken Constructs': Re-Examining the Nature and Assumptions of Language Teacher Education......Page 33
What Can Peers Provide?......Page 48
What Counts as Formal Language Instruction?Problems in Observation and Analysis of Classroom Teaching......Page 64
Reflective Teachers......Page 73
Content Knowledge and Instructional Practice in Second Language Teacher Education......Page 84
Teaching Vocabulary: The Current Word......Page 108
Second Culture Acquisition......Page 122
Dangerous Liaisons: Pitfalls in Second Language Reading Research......Page 131
A Pedagogy of Corporate-Level ESP Training for International Scientists and Engineers......Page 139
Perspectives on English for Academic Purposes......Page 151
Strategic Reading......Page 175
The State of the Art in Teaching Pronunciation......Page 187
Teaching Listening: Ends and Means......Page 202
Teaching Languages Communicatively: An Examination of the Presentation of Phonology to First-Year Students of French......Page 223
Language and Communication: A Time for Equilibrium and Integration......Page 231
Instructional Balance: From Theories to Practices in the Teaching of Writing......Page 246
Looking at and Towards the Future in French Textbooks......Page 258
Consensus and Divergence on the Content, Role, and Process of Teaching Grammar......Page 268
Writing in Foreign Language Classrooms: Process and Reality......Page 281
Linguistics, Language Pedagogy, and Teachers' Technical Cultures......Page 297
Metacognitive Strategies in L2 Writing: A Case for Task Knowledge......Page 310
Social Attitudes: The Key to Directing the Evolution of Grammar Teaching......Page 331
Ann, Bert, Carla, Derek, and Oakley's Thesis......Page 343
An Analysis of Text in Video Newscasts: A Tool for Schemata Building in Listeners......Page 351
In Search of a Sense of Place: The State of the Art in Language Teaching Methodology......Page 363
Second-Language Learning: Engaging, Simulating, and Converting......Page 376
The Shifting Sands of Bilingual Education......Page 387
Normative Language and Language Use: The Separate Implications for Instructional Practices and Materials......Page 394
X-Raying the International Funny Bone: A Study Exploring Differences in the Perception of Humor Across Cultures......Page 405
The Input Hypothesis: An Update......Page 417
A Look at Foreign Language Testing in the Secondary Schools: The State of the Art in 1990......Page 440
Content-Based Instruction: A Method with Many Faces......Page 470
Literacy, Language, and Multiculturalism......Page 480
Soviet Phraseology: Problems in the Analysis and Teaching of Idioms......Page 493
Shared Knowledge......Page 498
Second Language Teaching in Poland Prior to the Reform of 1990......Page 510
Greek Diglossia to Greek Dimorphia: A New Dilemma for Linguists and Teachers......Page 518
Language Awareness: The Common Ground Between Linguist and Language Teacher......Page 537
The Relevance of Linguistic Theory for Language Pedagogy: Debunking the Myths......Page 556
What Can Real Spoken Data Teach Teachers of English?......Page 564
Lexicography and Syntax: The State of the Art in Learner's Dictionaries of English......Page 576
Language Teaching and Learning: Folk Linguistic Perspectives......Page 593
Metaphors we are Healed By: On the Use of Metaphors in Medical Language......Page 613