1st Edition

Language Teaching Integrational Linguistic Approaches

Edited By Michael Toolan Copyright 2009
190 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

190 Pages
by Routledge

This book demonstrates the relevance of an integrational linguistic perspective to a practical, real-world need, namely the learning of languages. Integrational linguistics’ shunning of both realist and structuralist theories of language, its commitment to an unwavering attention to the perspective of the language user, and its adherence to a semiology in which signs are the situated products of... Read more

Introduction: Language Teaching and Integrational Linguistics

Michael Toolan

 

Chapter One: Implicit and Explicit Language Teaching

Roy Harris

 

Chapter Two: Learning to Write: Integrational Linguistics and the Indian Subcontinent

Rukmini Bhaya Nair

 

Chapter Three: Language Learning, Grammar, and Integrationism

Daniel R. Davis

 

Chapter Four: Grammaticality and the English Teacher in Hong Kong: An Integrationist Analysis

Christopher Hutton

 

Chapter Five: Integrationism, New Media Art and Learning to Read Arabic

Sally Pryor

 

Chapter Six: Teaching a Foreign Language: A Tentative Enterprise

Edda Weigand

 

Chapter Seven: Assessing Students’ Writing: Just More Grubby Verbal Hygiene?

Michael Toolan

 

Chapter Eight: Integrational Linguistics and Language Teaching

Charles Owen

Notes on Contributors

Index

Biography

Michael Toolan is Head of the Department of English at the University of Birmingham. His books include Total Speech: An Integrational Linguistic Approach to Language (1996), Language in Literature (1998), and Narrative (2nd edition: 2001). His Narrative Progression in the Short Story: A Corpus Stylistic Approach is forthcoming from Benjamins.