Fluency and Accuracy: Toward Balance in Language Teaching and Learning
This book suggests solutions to the problem of inaccuracy that results from emphasizing fluency. The establishment of an interlanguage is preventable, the restoration of balance depending on a better understanding of proficiency and of the roles of cross-linguistic influence, systematic instruction, and the "deep" correction of errors. The author's call is for more applicable theories of language.
English in Europe: The Acquisition of a Third Language
This book emerges as a response to the increasing use of English as a lingua franca in the multilingual European context. It provides an up-to-date overview of the sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic and educational aspects of research on third language acquisition by focusing on English as a third language.
The current volume is a collection of papers representing the most recent developments in linguistics, specifically in the fields of language, discourse and translation studies. It includes papers representative of traditionally distinguished linguistic subdisciplines such as phonetics and phonology, morphology and syntax, historical linguistics, pragmatics, discourse analysis and sociolinguistics, as well as translation. The contributions contained in the book touch upon such a variety of disciplines and do so from both more traditional and more innovative perspectives, it will be an important point of reference for scholars, graduate students and lecturers teaching courses in linguistics.
Цель книги - сформировать и развить навыки и умения подбора, перевода и извлечения информации из английских научно-технических текстов. Рассмотрены лексико-грамматические и лексико-семантические особенности научно-технической литературы, дана методика ее аннотирования, содержатся сведения о международных информационных службах, наиболее распространенные английские сокращения, общетехнические термины и другой справочный материал.
Noam Chomsky has written over 30 books, he is the most-quoted author on earth, the New York Times calls him “arguably the most important intellectual alive” — yet most people have no idea who he is or what he’s about.Chomsky For Beginners tells you what he’s about: Chomsky is known for his work in two distinct areas — Linguistics and… “gadflying.” (“Gadfly,” the word applied to Socrates. comes closest to the constant social irritant that Chomsky has become.)
