Describing and explaining grammar and vocabulary in ELT : key theories and effective practices /
Liu, Dilin.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-237) and indexes.
Language Description: Purview, Importance, and Principles. -- Part I: Foundations: Key theories and approaches to language description. Prescriptive, Structural, and Generative Linguistics ; Sociolinguistics and Systemic Functional Linguistics ; Cognitive Linguistics ; Corpus Linguistics. -- Part II: Putting Theory to Practice: Striving for Enhanced Language. Vocabulary Description: Basics, Parts of Speech, and Other Challenging Issues ; Sentence Structure Description: Basics, Verb Structure/ Subcategorization, and Other Challenging Structural Issues ; Tense and Aspect ; Articles ; Prepositions, Prepositional Adjectives/Adverbs, and Particles ; Structural Alternation: English Object Placement, Subject/Object Deletion, and the Passive voice ; Word Meaning and Usage: Polysemy, Synonymy, Culturally- Loaded Words, and Register ; Word Collocations ; Multi-Word Expressions: Idioms, Phrasal Verbs, and Formulae/ Lexical Bundles.
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