Willem J. Meijs

List of John Benjamins publications for which Willem J. Meijs plays a role.

Articles

The aim of the present paper was to find out which learning strategies secondary school pupils of different ages employ to acquire complex words in English as their second language: either by applying rules and analogies or by learning by heart. As a working hypothesis, it was postulated that… read more
Meijs, Willem J. 1983 Kruisinga; Mens En TaalkundigeToegepaste Taalwetenschap in Artikelen 17, pp. 209–214 | Article
Theories about mother-tongue teaching and second language teaching (L1 and L2 teaching) converge on a number of aspects, viz. 1) com-municative orientation, 2) functional orientation, and 3) preference for authentic materials. Both LI and L2 theorists agree that the main teaching objective must be… read more