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HOW TO TEACH A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
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HOW TO TEACH A FOREIGN LANGUAGEHOW TO TEACH A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

his book was first published in 1904 and is a classic in the field of language teaching. As well as being a methodological pioneer, Jespersen was one of the world’s seminal linguists and is noted for discovering the Great Vowel Shift in Early Modern English. In language teaching he is known as the father of the Direct Method — a landmark development in language teaching, providing a more humanist approach. Jespersen was one of the first proponents of the need for developing spoken proficiency and more natural production. As such, most modern language teachers today use a style that is inherited directly from this....
 
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The Philosophy of Grammar
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The Philosophy of GrammarThe Philosophy of Grammar

This study grew out of a series of lectures Jespersen gave at Columbia University in 1909-10, called "An Introduction to English Grammar." It is the connected presentation of Jespersen's views of the general principles of grammar based on years of studying various languages through both direct observation of living speech and written and printed documents.
 
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Macroeconomic Methodology: A Post-Keynesian Perspective by Jesper Jespersen
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Macroeconomic Methodology: A Post-Keynesian Perspective by Jesper JespersenMacroeconomic Methodology: A Post-Keynesian Perspective by Jesper Jespersen

Methodological practice is at the heart of divisions between schools of macroeconomic thought. Jesper Jespersen's book explains why and precisely how, and gives the reader the insight to choose between rival approaches. His own inspiration comes from Critical Realism and Popper's Three World analysis, with Keynes as the main exponent of a realist approach. The starting point of realist theory is a view of how the world is, rather than axioms, and the test is whether the theory can make, as Jespersen puts it, the "round trip back to reality", to give practical guidance to policy. This is only the focal point of a rich and attractive canvas.
 
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Selected Writings of Otto Jespersen
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Selected Writings of Otto JespersenSelected Writings of Otto Jespersen

This volume, first published in 1960 to commemorate the one hundredth birthday of Jespersen, collects together as many of his writings as possible in order to allow students of the English language, or indeed of language in general, to read those shorter papers which have hitherto escaped their notice. The layout of the book largely follows the nature of the subjects dealt with: English grammar, phonetics, history of English, language teaching, language in general, international language and miscellaneous papers.

 
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An Introduction to the Grammar of English
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An Introduction to the Grammar of EnglishThis grammar is in the tradition of the Quirk family of grammars, such as the work of Huddleston, Burton-Roberts, Aarts & Wekker. Quirk, Greenbaum, Leech, and Svartvik’s work in turn is based on a long tradition of grammarians such as Jespersen, Kruisinga, Poutsma, and Zandvoort.
 
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