Reflections on language and language learning
Subtitle: in honour of Arthur van Essen
By: edited by Marcel Bax, Jan-Wouter Zwart.
Contributors: Bax, Marcel.; Zwart, C. Jan-Wouter.; Essen, A. J. van.
Publisher: J. Benjamins Pub.
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
Subjects: Language and languages -- Study and teaching.; Linguistics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Language and language learning: An introduction; title: Arthur van Essen - as seen by another professional,; title: the late W. R. Lee OBE MA PHD; title: List of Arthur van Essen's publications; title: List of Contributors; title: Part One History of Linguistics; title: 1. Linguistics, historicism and the humanities; title: Jan Koster; title: 2. The man who knew too much.; title: J. M. Hoogvliet as a teacher and theoretician of language; title: Jan Noordegraaf; title: 3. Applied linguistics, old and new; title: Bondi Sciarone; title: 4. Karl Biihler's child psychology: Methodological preliminaries; title: Frank Vonk; title: Part Two Essays; title: 5. An exploration of the art and science debate in language education; title: David Block; title: 6. Phonology, lexical semantics and syntax in aphasia; title: and natural language acquisition in adulthood; title: Roelien Bastiaanse; title: 7. Language teaching as political action; title: Michael Byram; title: 8. How's this for fun? The role of humour in the ELT classroom; title: and ELT teaching materials; title: Peter Medgyes; title: 9. Identity and differentiation of the lexicon; title: through language corpora; title: Natalia Gvishiani; title: 10. ESP - a variety of English and/or a type of language course?; title: Uta Thiirmer; title: 11. Categorising in discourse: The case of Dutch ander; title: Titus Ensink and Harrie Mazeland; title: 12. SVOV in German and Dutch. Interface between; title: discourse prominence and subject identification; title: as a parsing requirement; title: Werner Abraham; title: Part Three Studies; title: 13. Literacy in Dutch of poorly schooled adult immigrants; title: from the Netherlands Antilles; title: Jan Berenst; title: 14. Medical discourse as professional and institutional action:; title: Challenges to teaching and researching languages; title: for special purposes; title: Christopher N. Candlin; title: 15. Content- and language-integrated learning,; title: culture of education and learning theories; title: Piet Van de Craen; title: 16. Content-based language teaching:; title: Language in the mathematics classroom; title: Jeanine Deen and Hilde Hacquebord; title: 17. Theoretical approaches to second-language learner varieties; title: Peter Jordens; title: 18. The role of form in language learning; title: Leo van Lier; title: 19. A methodology for evaluating the effectiveness; title: of vocabulary treatments; title: Paul Meara and Ignacio Rodriguez Sdnchez; title: 20. The place of knowledge about language in the mother tongue; title: and foreign language curriculum; title: Rosamond Mitchell and Christopher Brumfit; title: Part Four Reports; title: 21. Towards an alphabetical grammar of Modern Israeli Hebrew; title: Wout van Bekkum and Hans Hamburger; title: 22. The use of word frequency data in the teaching of English; title: as an alternative/additional language:; title: Reflections on recent EET-list experience and experiments; title: Michael Goethals; title: 23. Helping advanced EFL learners improve their written English; title: through self-correction tasks; title: Pierre Kouraogo; title: 24. A web-based foreign-language assistant; title: John Nerbonne and Petra Smit; title: 25. Subject didactics as the science; title: of the foreign language teaching profession; title: Aud Marit Simensen.