This accessible, engaging guide offers guidelines for organizing an individualized induction program and provides assistance in meeting the standards for qualified teacher status (QTS). Table of Contents 1. Looking after yourself 2. Understanding induction 3. The Standards 4 Key concepts to help development
What is discourse and how has the new interdisciplinary field of discourse studies developed? What are the linguistic and other structures of discourse at various levels of analysis? How do people - and their minds - go about producing and remembering text or talk? How are these mental processes interactionally shaped? Covering a great variety of genres, both written and spoken, Discourse as Structure and Process explains how discourse is organized, how discursive form and meaning are related and what the functions are of style and rhetoric in the communicative context.
Currect Issues in Linguistic Theory by Noam Chomsky
From the Author In this paper, I will restrict the term "linguistic theory" to systems of hypotheses concerning the general features of human language put forth in an attempt to account for a certain range of linguistic phenomena. I will not be concerned with systems of terminology or methods of investigation (analytic procedures).
Problems of Knowledge and Freedom (Bertrand Russell memorial lectures)
From interpreting the world to changing it, a synthesis of Chomsky's early work on philosophy, linguistics, and politics.
Originally delivered in 1971 as the first Cambridge lectures in memory of Bertrand Russell, Problems of Knowledge and Freedom is a masterful and cogent synthesis of Noam Chomsky's moral philosophy, linguistic analysis, and emergent political critique of America's war in Vietnam.
Language and Problems of Knowledge: The Managua Lectures
Language and Problems of Knowledge is Noam Chomsky's most accessible statement on the nature, origins, and current concerns of the field of linguistics. He frames the lectures with four fundamental questions: What do we know when we are able to speak and understand a language? How is this knowledge acquired? How do we use this knowledge? What are the physical mechanisms involved in the representation, acquisition, and use of this knowledge?
