By Larry Andrews

Linguistics for L2 Teachers is designed to assist bilingual and ESL lecturers higher know the way and why the English language works, and to expand their skills to assist their scholars find out about many of the capabilities of English within the actual global. it's not an entire curriculum in English linguistics, yet really, a beginning from which lecturers can keep growing and to educate with larger self assurance. The reader-friendly, conversational kind makes the strategies simply available to preservice and in-service academics who've very little prior event in language examine. This textbook:
* explains a number of points of English utilizing non-technical terminology;
* is going past the learn of grammar to check the features of language, not only its form;
* offers language purposes in L2 school rooms; and
* in actual fact delineates the importance of bankruptcy subject matters for L2 academics and students.

each one bankruptcy contains prereading actions to augment the reader's comprehension; postreading actions to extend and problematic the thoughts; and interactive "Be A Linguist" actions to aid readers imagine in methods just like the methods linguists imagine and to supply possibilities to use rules defined in the bankruptcy.

meant for all lecturers of scholars for whom English is a brand new language, this article will support them be higher ready to fulfill the $64000 demanding situations and questions they come upon of their classrooms.

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Do you put perishable foods in the “refrigerator,” the “fridge,” or the “ice box”? The choices made in these examples are shaped by one’s culture. One choice is not especially better, from a linguistic point of view, than another. The language options we select are largely determined by the culture of which we are a part. It is possible, furthermore, for us to distinguish between the vowel sounds in “creek” and “crick” or the consonant sounds in “pack” and “back” because the sounds in human language are meaningfully distinct, illustrating the property of discreteness.

Backformation. 17 For some reason, this word-formation process has generated a considerable amount of controversy. Why anyone might argue with the use of a noun like shower undergoing a backf ormation to create a verb to shower may seem like nit-picking to you, it obviously matters to some pop grammarians. 18 What about the noun email? Are you hearing it used as a verb? Converting nouns into verbs is hardly new. It’s been going on for centuries. Pinker estimated, in fact, that one fifth of all English verbs WORDS AND DICTIONARIES 25 were first used as nouns.

Will have no meaning. The Bingo illustration is only one example from a universe of thousands. S. life? A court case might be described as a “slam-dunk” situation. ” A person who has erred has “dropped the ball. ” When in doubt, do you punt? WORDS AND DICTIONARIES 27 Only in those cultures where people are familiar with basketball, football, and baseball, and the terminology associated with those sports, will these metaphors make any sense. My advice to ENL teachers when it comes to their using metaphors: Hold that line.

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