Dr N S Prabhu's study presents a range of ideas on language teaching and learning which are marked equally by boldness in thought and a sense of the classroom.
The basic assumption underlying the study is that language form is best learnt when students are concentrating on meaning rather than form.
How to suddenly enjoy English, learn lots and find yourself speaking English perfectly
1.Learn Pronunciation from a native speaker. Your country has specific sounds and so does English. Learn the equivalents in your language e.g. tch in Portuguese is ch in English.Learn the new sounds aswell. Germans say V for V and W. Push your lips out and say Water.
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This book is an edited collection of language and interaction-centred studies that explore what happens when people use the telephone to call for help.More specifically, the focus throughout this collection is on diverse aspects of spoken language and patterns of social interaction in calls made by members of the public to a variety of telephone helplines.
This book addresses a central problem in phraseological and linguistic analysis. The creative structure and the creative use of idioms. Let me therefore start creatively, with a highly speculative metaphorical hypothesis: idioms are to linguists and language users what the Cheshire cat is to Alice. Idioms are peculiar linguistic constructions that have raised many eyebrows in linguistics and often confuse newcomers to a language. Indeed, the expression grin like a Cheshire cat is an idiom. More precisely, it is an idiomatic comparison whose motivation has become opaque: as the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) indicates, the phrase is of undetermined origin.
In Contemporary Metaphor Theory (CMT), research has predominantly focused on the English language with few studies of others and even less systematic comparative work. This volume focuses on the discourse domain of learning (formal, technical and informal aspects) and brings together a variety of language perspectives.
