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This book provides an accessible and readable overview of linguistic research. The text uses pedagogical tools such as analogies, metaphors, and graphic organisers to clarify the meaning of complex linguistic concepts. To ensure that readers develop a firm and lasting grasp of new ideas, the book illustrates theoretical concepts with language samples (such as popular song lyrics or famous sayings) that are likely to be familiar to the reader. The use of such recognisable language material is intended to help students see the language in their own environment as worth observing and analysing.

Above all, the book is meant to help future teachers in the classroom. This goal largely determines the book’s scope. The text provides an overview of those studies that have especially significant implications for classroom practice. For instance, the chapter on neurolinguistics covers research into the gestures that accompany speech, and the chapter on semantics places special emphasis on discussing the role of conceptual metaphors in cognition. Each of the book’s eleven chapters concludes with a section entitled “Implications for Instruction.” These sections engage to reader in exploring the practical significance of linguistic research.

Relevant Linguistics: A Textbook for Language

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      Publisher Information Age Publishing
      Published 30 July 2012
      ISBN-13 9781617358807
      978-1617358807
      ISBN-10 1617358800
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      Language: reference and general Linguistics Education / Educational sciences / Pedagogy

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book provides an accessible and readable overview of linguistic research. The text uses pedagogical tools such as analogies, metaphors, and graphic organisers to clarify the meaning of complex linguistic concepts. To ensure that readers develop a firm and lasting grasp of new ideas, the book illustrates theoretical concepts with language samples (such as popular song lyrics or famous sayings) that are likely to be familiar to the reader. The use of such recognisable language material is intended to help students see the language in their own environment as worth observing and analysing.

      Above all, the book is meant to help future teachers in the classroom. This goal largely determines the book’s scope. The text provides an overview of those studies that have especially significant implications for classroom practice. For instance, the chapter on neurolinguistics covers research into the gestures that accompany speech, and the chapter on semantics places special emphasis on discussing the role of conceptual metaphors in cognition. Each of the book’s eleven chapters concludes with a section entitled “Implications for Instruction.” These sections engage to reader in exploring the practical significance of linguistic research.

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