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Gordon, Tatiana

 
9781617358814: The Educator’s Guide to Linguistics (Hc): A Textbook for Language Teachers
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ISBN 10: 1617358819 ISBN 13: 9781617358814
Editorial: Information Age Publishing, 2012

Sinopsis

This book provides an accessible and readable overview of linguistic research.The text uses pedagogical tools such as analogies, metaphors, and graphic organizersto clarify the meaning of complex linguistic concepts. To ensure that readersdevelop a firm and lasting grasp of new ideas, the book illustratestheoretical concepts with language samples (such as popular song lyrics orfamous sayings) that are likely to be familiar to the reader. The use of such recognizablelanguage material is intended to help students see the language intheir own environment as worth observing and analyzing.Above all, the book is meant to help future teachers in the classroom. This goallargely determines the book’s scope. The text provides an overview of those studiesthat have especially significant implications for classroom practice. Forinstance, the chapter on neurolinguistics covers research into the gestures that accompany speech, and the chapteron semantics places special emphasis on discussing the role of conceptual metaphors in cognition. Each ofthe book’s eleven chapters concludes with a section entitled "Implications for Instruction." These sectionsengage to reader in exploring the practical significance of linguistic research.

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Tatiana Gordon is at Hofstra University, NY, USA.

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Editorial
Information Age Publishing
Año de publicación
2012
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1617358819
ISBN 13 
9781617358814
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Número de páginas
188
Contacto del fabricante
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