Changing values : what use are theories of language learning and teaching?

This paper is a response to the common perception by student teachers that the research and theory courses on their program are overtheoretical and unrelated to classroom practice. While there is some support for a categorical distinction between theory and practice in language education, it is suggested that the beliefs, assumptions and knowledge of teachers are in fact inextricably bound up with what goes on in the classroom. We investigate two groups of student teachers studying at undergraduate and postgraduate level to become Teachers of English to Speakers of other Languages. We examine the extent to which a research and theory course which both groups took in Second Language Acquisition influenced key beliefs which students held relating to language learning during their period of study

The real thing? : authenticity and academic listening

In this article we explore the usefulness of the criterion of authenticity for the selection and evaluation of EAP materials. These materials were specialised listening texts used on a first year undergraduate programme at a U.K. university. Using a student questionnaire and techniques of discourse analysis based on Halliday's concepts of field, tenor and mode, we investigated the levels of difficulty and relevance of materials using four media: published audio tapes, audio recordings of a live lecture, video materials and a short, simulated lecture by the teacher. We found that the texts which related to the students experience and permitted learner interaction appeared to have more potential for language learning than those which merely replicated the discourse of the target situation

Standard English and standards in English in a changing world : a case study - Irish Standard English

THESIS 7745This study investigates the question ?Does such a phenomenon as Irish Standard English exist, and if it does, what are some of the characteristics of its forms and use?? The research question is investigated in three ways. A distinction is drawn between ?language standards?, which are defined as the rules which prescribe what is considered to be standard in a language, and which encompasses both attitudes towards the standard variety and prescriptive statements about the linguistic norms to which it should conform, and ?standard language? which is concerned with the actual linguistic forms which standard language users employ. It is argued that all three approaches, that is, attitudes, prescriptions and instances of actual standard language use have something to contribute to the construction of a case for the existence of Irish Standard English, although the third approach may have the most to offer

Listening

143 tr. ; 25 c

Listening

142 tr. ; 24 cm

sociolinguistics of identity

edited by Tope Omoniyi and Goodith White.x, 239 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm

Chemisches Recycling von Polyethylenterephthalat und Polymethylmethacrylat

Different processes for chemical recycling of poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) and the pyrolysis of aluminium hydroxide filled poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) were investigated in this thesis. The main focus was the use of the Hamburg fluidized bed process at temperatures between 400 C and 730 C.SIGLEAvailable from: <a href=http://www.sub.uni-hamburg.de/disse/970/dissertation.pdf target=NewWindow>http://www.sub.uni-hamburg.de/disse/970/dissertation.pdf</a> / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekDEGerman

Applied linguistics at the interface /

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