Language in Context in TESOL
Published on 11. December 2014
201 pages
978-0-7486-9928-5 (ISBN)
Description
This book covers the relevance of theories on language analysis to TESOL, showing students how to understand and evaluate TESOL methodology, curriculum, and materials in terms of cooperation, politeness, conversation structure, ideology, power, varieties, domains and genre. Students will be able to consider different ways of teaching in relation to these theories and will be encouraged to design tasks and lessons with a sociological and cultural focus. Key features* Written specifically for those studying TESOL teaching* Shows practical applications of language analysis theory to the TESOL classroom * Concepts and research are presented in an accessible way, regardless of the student''s level of teaching experience or linguistic study* Provides group tasks and independent activities, as well as suggestions for teachers to use in their own classrooms.
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Joan Cutting
Language in Context in TESOL
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12/2014
Edinburgh University Press
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Content
- Intro
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- List of Abbreviations
- Transcription Symbols
- Acknowledgements
- Series Editors' Preface
- Author and Contributor Biographies
- 1 Introduction
- Introduction
- 1.1 Rationale and Aim of Language in Context in TESOL
- 1.2 Content of Language in Context in TESOL
- 1.3 Structure of Each Chapter
- 1.4 Tools and Sociolinguistic Dimensions
- 1.5 Approaches to Data Analysis
- 2 Corpus Linguistics
- Introduction
- 2.1 Types of Corpora and Ways of Building Them
- 2.2 Analysing Corpora
- 2.3 Social Variables and Interaction
- 2.4 Further Reading One
- 2.5 Further Reading Two
- 2.6 Summary
- 2.7 Additional Readings
- 3 Global Englishes Nicola Galloway and Eleni Mariou
- Introduction
- 3.1 English in a Global World
- 3.2 Varieties and World Englishes
- 3.3 English as a Lingua Franca
- 3.4 Further Reading One
- 3.5 Further Reading Two
- 3.6 Summary
- 3.7 Additional Readings
- 4 English across Cultures Kenneth Fordyce and Florence Bonacina-Pugh
- Introduction
- 4.1 English Language Teaching in Bilingual and Multilingual Contexts
- 4.2 Cross-Cultural Pragmatics
- 4.3 Intercultural Pragmatics
- 4.4 Further Reading One
- 4.5 Further Reading Two
- 4.6 Summary
- 4.7 Additional Readings
- 5 Context and Registers Kenneth Fordyce
- Introduction
- 5.1 Context, Cohesion and Coherence
- 5.2 Communities of Practice, Register and Genre
- 5.3 Electronic Communication Registers
- 5.4 Further Reading One
- 5.5 Further Reading Two
- 5.6 Summary
- 5.7 Additional Readings
- 6 Exchange Theory and Conversation Analysis
- Introduction
- 6.1 Exchange Theory
- 6.2 Conversation Analysis
- 6.3 Structure and Social Variables
- 6.4 Further Reading One
- 6.5 Further Reading Two
- 6.6 Summary
- 6.7 Additional Readings
- 7 Speech Act Theory and the Cooperative Principle
- Introduction
- 7.1 Direct and Indirect Speech Acts
- 7.2 Observing and Flouting the Cooperative Maxims
- 7.3 Functions, Maxims and Social Variables
- 7.4 Further Reading One
- 7.5 Further Reading Two
- 7.6 Summary
- 7.7 Additional Readings
- 8 Politeness Theories
- Introduction
- 8.1 Politeness Theories
- 8.2 Impoliteness Theories
- 8.3 Politeness, Impoliteness and Social Variables
- 8.4 Further Reading One
- 8.5 Further Reading Two
- 8.6 Summary
- 8.7 Additional Readings
- 9 Conclusion
- Introduction
- 9.1 New Directions for Research
- 9.2 New Directions for English Language Teaching
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
