Henry G. Widdowson
List of John Benjamins publications for which Henry G. Widdowson plays a role.
2020 Linguistics, language teaching objectives and the language learning process Pedagogical Linguistics 1:1, pp. 34–43 | Article
Linguistics has always been taken as the authoritative frame of reference for how language is represented as a pedagogic subject, and as approaches to linguistic description have changed so accordingly have approaches to language teaching. But the purposes that determine what aspects of language… read more
2018 Response 1: Applied linguistics as transdisciplinary practice: What’s in a prefix? Transdisciplinarity in Applied Linguistics, Perrin, Daniel and Claire Kramsch (eds.), pp. 135–142 | Article
2003 The virtue of the vernacular: On intervention in linguistic affairs Social Dialectology: In honour of Peter Trudgill, Britain, David and Jenny Cheshire (eds.), pp. 299–309 | Article
2002 Language teaching: defining the subject Language in Language Teacher Education, Trappes-Lomax, Hugh and Gibson Ferguson (eds.), pp. 67–81 | Article
2001 The monolingual teaching and bilingual learning of English New Perspectives and Issues in Educational Language Policy: In honour of Bernard Dov Spolsky, Cooper, Robert L., Elana Shohamy and Joel Walters (eds.), pp. 7–18 | Article
1999 Coherence in Summary: The Contexts of Appropriate Discourse Coherence in Spoken and Written Discourse: How to create it and how to describe it, Bublitz, Wolfram, Uta Lenk and Eija Ventola (eds.), pp. 205 ff. | Article
1997 The use of grammar, the grammar of use Functions of Language 4:2, pp. 145–168 | Article
This paper1 is meant to be a contribution to the current debate on the scope and accountability of grammatical description by a critical examination of features of the systemic-functional model. As to scope, I consider to what extent this grammar can actually account for language use in text. I… read more