The series reprints, updating where necessary, articles from Current Issues in Language Planning in area-specific volumes for the benefit of area specialists interested in language planning and policy.
Language Planning And Policy In Europe: Vol. 1: Hungary, Finland and Sweden. Language Planning And Policy In Europe: Vol. 2: The Czech Repubic, The European Union and Northern Ireland. Language Planning And Policy In Europe: Vol. 3: The Baltic States, Ireland and Italy
Added by: englishcology | Karma: 4552.53 | Only for teachers, Linguistics | 9 January 2009
26
The history of "language teaching" is shot through with methods and approaches to language learning - most recently with "communicative language teaching" - but this book demonstrates that a more differentiated and richer understanding of learning a foreign language is both necessary and desirable. Languages and cultures are interlinked and interdependent and their teaching and learning should be too.
This book is a companion to Rethinking grammaticalization: New perspectives, also edited by Marнa Josй Lуpez-Couso and Elena Seoane (TSL 76). The two volumes together offer a representative sample of the papers presented at the New Reflections onGrammaticalization 3 conference, held in Santiago de Compostela in 2005, and investigate the most relevant topics pertaining to rammaticalization studies today. The title of the present volume, Theoretical and empirical issues in grammaticalization, highlights the broad-ranging nature of the contributions it comprises and the fact that they all combine theoretical, empirical and/or methodological questions.
This volume explores connections between diachrony, dialectology and typological linguistics, focusing on the ways in which historical linguists and dialectologists may learn from insights offered by typology, and vice versa. As the title of the collection suggests, the underlying theme of the chapters is linguistic variation, and its implications for the research questions addressed.
Foreigners often say that English language is "easy." A language like Spanish is challenging in its variety of verb endings (the verb speak is conjugated hablo, hablas, hablamos), and gender for nouns, whereas English is more straight forward (I speak, you speak, we speak). But linguists generally swat down claims that certain languages are "easier" than others, since it is assumed all languages are complex to the same degree.
