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Title Linguistics, language teaching and language acquisition:
the interdependence of theory, practice and research.
Author(s) Alatis, James E., ed.
Local Call Num. P 53 .G39 1990
ISBN 978-0-87840-125-3
0-87840-125-3
Status Archived (Parka
Series Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) series.
Pages viii, 523 p.
Publishing Info Washington, DC Georgetown University Press. 1990
Loan Type/Days REG-Regular / This item may circulate for 21 Days
Department MIS-Miscellaneous
Media BK-Book
Volume/Issue 1990
Subjects Linguistics--Congresses.
Language and languages--Congresses.
Language acquisition--Congresses.
 
Description ill.; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:
Welcoming remarks / James E. Alatis --
Opening remarks / Rita Esquivel --
Presentation of the Dean's Medal to John Bissell Carroll / James E. Alatis --
Sir John Lyons : an introduction / James E. Alatis --
Linguistics : theory, practice and research / John Lyons --
In memoriam : Peter Strevens, S. Pitt Corder / H. G. Widdowson, Larry Selinker, James E. Alatis --
Discourses of enquiry and conditions of relevance / H. G. Widdowson --
Mental representations and language in action / Wilga M. Rivers --
Semiotic theory and L2 practice / John W. Oller, Jr. --
Cognitive and social correlates and consequences of additive bilingualism --
A citation analysis of the diffusion of linguistic and language acquisition theory and research to the English language learning community / Steven J. Gaies --
Theory, practice and research : strange or blissful bedfellows? / Suzanne Flynn --
Mountains are not cones : what can we learn from chaos? / Roger Bowers --
Reframing contrastive analysis / Larry Selinker --
Classroom shock / Richard Lutz --
Nativized English and interlanguages : another look / Peter Lowenberg --
The role of the amygdala as a mediator of acculturation and cognition in second language acquisition / John Schumann --
A situational analysis of the semantics of can / Yugi Suzuki --
Natural vs. classroom input : advantages and disadvantages for beginning language students / Tracy Terrell --
Communicative language teaching : definitions and directions / Sandra Savignon --
Integrating theory and practice in second language teacher education : the role of action research / Jack Richards --
An evaluation of semi-direct speaking tests as measures of oral proficiency / Charles Stansfield --
Fossils or forests? : the challenge of teaching for proficiency in the secondary schools / Rebecca M. Valette --
Data-based language analysis and TESL / Marianne Celce-Murcia --
On the need for a theory of language teaching / Diane Larsen-Freeman --
Knowledge-based inferencing in second language comprehension / Elizabeth Bernhardt --
Bringing cultural literacy into the foreign language classroom through video / Thomas Garza --
Personal perceptions : error feedback in language acquisition / Gail L. Nemetz Robinson --
Linguistic hypothesis testing in neural networks / Donald Loritz --
Improving foreign language listening comprehension / Joan Rubin --
Trends and developments in listening comprehension : theory and practice / Joan Morley --
[cont.] Theory, practice, research, and professionalization of the field of teaching English to speakers of other languages / Richard A. Orem --
Analyzing register variation among written texts : a second language teaching method / Jeffrey Connor-Linton --
Paving the way for proficiency / Viktor Litwinski --
Reading, writing, form, and content / Stephen Krashen --
Why teach grammar? / Louis G. Alexander --
M & Ms for language classrooms : another look at motivation / H. Douglas Brown --
Research : teaching/sin : confession--an analogy for the times / June Phillips --
The language of French immersion students : implications for theory and practice / Merrill Swain --
Owls and doves : cognition, personality and learning success / Madeline Ehrman --
Missing link : evidence from research on language learning styles and strategies / Rebecca Oxford --
Language learning in a study abroad context : the effects of interactive and non-interactive out-of-class contact on grammatical achievement and oral proficiency / Barbara Freed --
The cognitive basis for second language instruction / Michael O'Malley --
Cognitive instruction in the second language classroom / Anna Uhl Chamot --
What kind of theory? What kind of practice? What kind of research? / Nina Garrett.