Reflections on language and language learning : in honour of Arthur van Essen

400 Pages·2001·2.269 MB·English

by  Marcel Bax, C Jan-Wouter Zwart, A J van Essen

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ReflectionsonLanguageandLanguageLearning

Reflections on Language
and Language Learning
In honour of Arthur van Essen
Edited by
Marcel Bax
Jan-Wouter Zwart
UniversityofGroningen

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Zwart,C.Jan-Wouter.III.Essen,A.J.van.

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Contents
Languageandlanguagelearning:Anintroduction xi
ArthurvanEssen—asseenbyanotherprofessional,
thelateW.R.Leeobe ma phd xix
ListofArthurvanEssen’spublications xxi
ListofContributors xxxi
PartOne HistoryofLinguistics
1. Linguistics,historicismandthehumanities 3
JanKoster
2. Themanwhoknewtoomuch.
J.M.Hoogvlietasateacherandtheoreticianoflanguage 21
JanNoordegraaf
3. Appliedlinguistics,oldandnew 35
BondiSciarone
4. KarlBühler’schildpsychology:Methodologicalpreliminaries 47
FrankVonk
PartTwo Essays
5. Anexplorationoftheartandsciencedebateinlanguageeducation 63

DavidBlock
6. Phonology,lexicalsemanticsandsyntaxinaphasia
andnaturallanguageacquisitioninadulthood 75
RoelienBastiaanse
7. Languageteachingaspoliticalaction 91
MichaelByram
viii Contents
8. How’sthisforfun?Theroleofhumourintheelt classroom
andelt teachingmaterials 105
PéterMedgyes
9. Identityanddifferentiationofthelexicon
throughlanguagecorpora 119
NataliaGvishiani
10. esp –avarietyofEnglishand/oratypeoflanguagecourse? 131
UtaThürmer
11. Categorisingindiscourse:ThecaseofDutchander 141
TitusEnsinkandHarrieMazeland
12. SVOVinGermanandDutch.Interfacebetween
discourseprominenceandsubjectidentification
asaparsingrequirement 155
WernerAbraham
PartThree Studies
13. LiteracyinDutchofpoorlyschooledadultimmigrants
fromtheNetherlandsAntilles 171
JanBerenst
14. Medicaldiscourseasprofessionalandinstitutionalaction:
Challengestoteachingandresearchinglanguages
forspecialpurposes 185
ChristopherN.Candlin
15. Content-andlanguage-integratedlearning,
cultureofeducationandlearningtheories 209
PietVandeCraen

16. Content-basedlanguageteaching:
Languageinthemathematicsclassroom 221
JeanineDeenandHildeHacquebord
17. Theoreticalapproachestosecond-languagelearnervarieties 237
PeterJordens
18. Theroleofforminlanguagelearning 253
LeovanLier
Contents ix
19. Amethodologyforevaluatingtheeffectiveness
ofvocabularytreatments 267
PaulMearaandIgnacioRodríguezSánchez
20. Theplaceofknowledgeaboutlanguageinthemothertongue
andforeignlanguagecurriculum 279
RosamondMitchellandChristopherBrumfit
PartFour Reports
21. TowardsanalphabeticalgrammarofModernIsraeliHebrew 295
WoutvanBekkumandHansHamburger
22. TheuseofwordfrequencydataintheteachingofEnglish
asanalternative/additionallanguage:
ReflectionsonrecentEET-listexperienceandexperiments 311
MichaëlGoethals
23. Helpingadvancedefl learnersimprovetheirwrittenEnglish
throughself-correctiontasks 325
PierreKouraogo
24. Aweb-basedforeign-languageassistant 341
JohnNerbonneandPetraSmit
25. Subjectdidacticsasthescience
oftheforeignlanguageteachingprofession 349
AudMaritSimensen