Change and Language (BAAL 10)
Published on 11. January 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-1-85359-359-8 (ISBN)
Description
This volume is a collection of papers from the Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics at the University of Leeds, September 1994.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Bristol
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Channel View Publications Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
264 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85359-359-8 (9781853593598)
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Hywel Coleman studied at the universities of Oxford, Leicester and Lancaster and he holds the Final Diploma in Indonesian from the Institute of Linguists, London. He is Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the University of Leeds and a Trustee of the Language & Development Conferences. He has lived and worked in Indonesia for more than 25 years. His books include Society and the Language Classroom (Cambridge), Dreams and Realities: Developing Countries and the English Language (British Council, UK) and The English Language in Francophone West Africa (British Council Senegal). He was made an OBE for his services to education in Indonesia in 2000.
Content
Hywel Coleman and Lynne Cameron: Change and Language: Editors' Preface
Section 1: Change, Language and Society at the End of the Twentieth Century
Introduction
1. Norman Fairclough: Border Crossings: Discourse and Social Change in Contemporary Societies
2. Michael Foster: Language Change and Darwinian Principles
3. Chris Kennedy: 'La Creme de la Creme': Coercion and Corpus Change - An Example from Recruitment Advertisements
4. Ulrike Hanna Meinhof: Dialect as Metaphor: The Use of Language in Edgar Reitz' Heimat films
5. Margaret Rogers: Modern Foreign Languages and Curriculum Policy at 16+: Plus ca change
6. Graham H. Turner: Language Change at the British Sign Language/English Interface
Section 2: Change, Language and the Individual
Introduction
7. Catherine E. Snow: Change in Child Language and Child Linguists
8. Ben Rampton: Crossing: Language across Ethnic Boundaries
9. Christine Raschka and Lesley Milroy: Developing Grammars in Their Social Context: The L2 Acquisition Patterns of Three Chinese Learners of English
10. Alan Tonkyn: The Oral Language Development of Instructed Second Language Learners: The Quest for a Progress-sensitive Proficiency Measure
11. Joan M. Turner and Masako K. Hiraga: Elaborating Elaboration in Academic Tutorials: Changing Cultural Assumptions
Section 3: Change, Language Education and the Developing World
Introduction
12. D. P. Pattanayak: Change, Language and the Developing World
13. Martin Cortazzi and Lixian Jin: Changes in Learning English Vocabulary in China
14. Clinton D. W. Robinson: Winds of Change in Africa: Fresh Air for African Languages? Some Preliminary Reflections
Section 1: Change, Language and Society at the End of the Twentieth Century
Introduction
1. Norman Fairclough: Border Crossings: Discourse and Social Change in Contemporary Societies
2. Michael Foster: Language Change and Darwinian Principles
3. Chris Kennedy: 'La Creme de la Creme': Coercion and Corpus Change - An Example from Recruitment Advertisements
4. Ulrike Hanna Meinhof: Dialect as Metaphor: The Use of Language in Edgar Reitz' Heimat films
5. Margaret Rogers: Modern Foreign Languages and Curriculum Policy at 16+: Plus ca change
6. Graham H. Turner: Language Change at the British Sign Language/English Interface
Section 2: Change, Language and the Individual
Introduction
7. Catherine E. Snow: Change in Child Language and Child Linguists
8. Ben Rampton: Crossing: Language across Ethnic Boundaries
9. Christine Raschka and Lesley Milroy: Developing Grammars in Their Social Context: The L2 Acquisition Patterns of Three Chinese Learners of English
10. Alan Tonkyn: The Oral Language Development of Instructed Second Language Learners: The Quest for a Progress-sensitive Proficiency Measure
11. Joan M. Turner and Masako K. Hiraga: Elaborating Elaboration in Academic Tutorials: Changing Cultural Assumptions
Section 3: Change, Language Education and the Developing World
Introduction
12. D. P. Pattanayak: Change, Language and the Developing World
13. Martin Cortazzi and Lixian Jin: Changes in Learning English Vocabulary in China
14. Clinton D. W. Robinson: Winds of Change in Africa: Fresh Air for African Languages? Some Preliminary Reflections