Applied Linguistics [microform] : Its Meaning and Use / W. F. Mackey
- Bib ID:
- 5198573
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Mackey, W. F
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED026621
Broken link? let us search Trove , the Wayback Machine , or Google for you.
- Description:
-
- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1968
- 11 p.
- Summary:
-
The author discusses claims that linguistics can solve the problems of language teaching. Linguistics is either a theory of language or a description of a particular language, and both vary greatly from investigator to investigator, both as to scope and substance. Linguistic "analysis is the business of the linguist" but it is not essential to the learning of a language, and the units of analysis may not be the same as those needed for learning the language. The linguist's prediction of expected errors, based on contrastive analysis of native and target languages, is not as useful for teaching as the experience of teachers listing actual errors made. Most contrastive descriptions are so "incomplete as to be misleading." Linguistics can help the teacher to know more about the foreign language, which, in turn, can help his teaching of it. The author concludes: "Contemporary claims that applied linguistics can solve all the problems of language teaching are as unfounded as the claims that applied psychology can solve them. For the problems of language teaching are central neither to psychology nor linguistics." (MK)
- Notes:
-
- Availability: Journal of English Teaching, Subscription Department, Oxford University Press K.K., P.O. Box 58, Hongo, Tokyo, Japan.
- Journal of English Teaching, v1 n3 Jan 1968.
- May also be available online. Address as at 14/8/18: https://eric.ed.gov/
- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
- Subject:
- Available From:
- ERIC
- Copyright:
-
In Copyright
You may copy under some circumstances, for example you may copy a portion for research or study. Order a copy through Copies Direct to the extent allowed under fair dealing. Contact us for further information about copying.
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1968
Copyright status may not be correct if data in the record is incomplete or inaccurate. Other access conditions may also apply. For more information please see: Copyright in library collections.
Request this item
Request this item to view in the Library’s reading room.
Feedback
Similar items
- Aspects of case-marking and transitivity in Polynesian [microform]
- Flexibility in language comprehension: Paraphrasing metaphors, proverbs,and vague sentences [microform]
- Word order, transformation, and communicative function in Mandarin Chinese [microform]
- Unexpected (in)definiteness: Plural generic expressions in Romance. [microform]
- باغ آجئ : Grandma's farm