The Linguistic Toolkit for Teachers of English Discovering the Value of Linguistics for Foreign Language Teaching

In contrast to literary or cultural studies linguistics is not taught in the EFL classroom, yet, it plays a major role in any English language teaching degree. Given this discrepancy it does not come as a surprise that students sometimes ask: "I want to be a teacher! Why do I need all this?" The main goal of this textbook is to demonstrate the relevance of linguistic expertise for the EFL classroom. It explores a wide range of topics (phonetics/phonology, lexis, corpus linguistics, text linguistics and the power of language) with a clear focus on providing a convincing answer to the question above. With its highly accessible style and layout, a wealth of examples and exercises as well as a large range of additional innovative online materials this textbook sets out to convince its readers that they will be better teachers if they are good linguists.

About the author

Prof. Dr. Rolf Kreyer ist Professor für Sprachwissenschaft des modernen Englisch und zweifacher Lehrpreisträger der Universität Marburg.

Product details

• Authors: Rolf Kreyer
• Publisher: Narr
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 26.10.2023
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies
• EAN: 9783823386117
• ISBN: 978-3-8233-8611-7
• Pages: 305
• Dimensions (packing): 21.4 x 2 x 24.7 cm
• Weight (packing): 578 g
• Series: Narr Studienbücher
• Subjects: Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik, Englisch, Lexikologie, Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik, Phonologie, Textlinguistik, Phonetik, Sounds, EFL Classroom, Classroom, Kollokationen, Corpus Analysis, Lehramtsstudium, die macht der sprache, words, Phonology, Phonetics, Corpus Linguistics, Englische Linguistik, textuality, Lexis, Text Linguistics, Collocation, Mental Lexicon, Corpora, lexical phrases, Producer, Sentence structure, Power of Language, rhetorical structure, recipient, English linguistics, Themes and Rhemes, Clause Pattern, Linguistik und Englischunterricht, Teacher of English, Spoken and Written English. Politeness