Author: Wilkins, D.A.
Title: Linguistics in Language Teaching
Description: London, Edward Arnold, (1972). orig.boards. 22x14cm, viii, 243 pp, Fading & a small tear to dustwrapper.. Slight binding-edge dent,name inked on flyleaf,minor rubbing,VG. ¶ Contents: Linguistic Attitudes to Language: Speech & Writing; Form & Meaning; Descriptive Accuracy; 'Langue' and 'Parole'; Phonetics & Phonology: Intonation; Generative Phonology; Grammar: Item & Structure; Deep Structure & the Study of Syntax; Units of Language; Vocabulary; The Social Function of Language: Social Norms; Individual Intention & Social Function; The Social Status of Non-Native Languages; The Psychology of Language: General Theories of Language Acquisition; Individual Variation in Language Learning Performance; Error & the Mother Tongue: The Evidence of Mother-Tongue Interference; Other Sources of Error; The Significance of Error; The Application of Contrastive Information; Linguistics & the Scientific Study of Language Teaching: Methodology as Fashion; The Problems of Conducting Empirical Research into Language Teaching; The Place of Linguistics; Conclusion: The Value of Linguistics.

Keywords: Linguistics, Language Teaching, Linguistic Theory, Foreign Languages, Education, , , ,