Reflections on Language and Language Learning

In honour of Arthur van Essen

Editors

Marcel Bax

| University of Groningen

C. Jan-Wouter Zwart

| University of Groningen

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In Reflections on Language and Language Learning: In honour of Arthur van Essen, thirty-one leading language scholars and educational linguists in the Netherlands and abroad with whom over the years Professor van Essen, one of the grandees of applied linguistics, has collaborated provide original essays and studies which discuss the most recent insights and trends in the fields of linguistics and foreign language teaching. While interdisciplinary in scope, the volume encompasses theoretical advances in (educational) linguistic thinking; for example, the perceptive articles written by Michael Byram, Christopher N. Candlin, Natalia Gvishiani, Peter Jordens, Jan Koster, Leo van Lier, and Bondi Sciarone — as well as a sample of the latest methodological developments in areas such as ELT, LSP, and content-based language teaching; cases in point are the useful contributions by Jeanine Deen & Hilde Hacquebord, Michaël Goethals, Paul Meara & Ignacio Rodríguez Sánchez, Rosamond Mitchell & Christopher Brumfit, and Uta Thürmer.

[Not in series, 109] 2001. xxxiv, 366 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/z.109

Table of Contents

Language and language learning: An introduction	xi
Arthur van Essen: as seen by another professional, the late W. R. Lee OBE MA PHD	xix
List of Arthur van Essen’s publications	xxi
List of Contributors	xxxi
Part One. History of Linguistics
1. Linguistics, historicism and the humanities Jan Koster	3–19
2. The man who knew too much: J. M. Hoogvliet as a teacher and theoretician of language Jan Noordegraaf	21–33
3. Applied linguistics, old and new Bondi Sciarone	35–46
4. Karl Bühler’s child psychology: Methodological preliminaries Frank J.M. Vonk	47–60
Part Two
5. An exploration of the art and science debate in language education David Block	63–74
6. Phonology, lexical semantics and syntax in aphasia and natural language acquisition in adulthood Roelien Bastiaanse	75–90
7. Language teaching as political action Michael Byram	91–103
8. How’s this for fun?: The role of humour in the ELT classroom and ELT teaching materials Péter Medgyes	105–118
9. Identity and differentiation of the lexicon through language corpora Natalia Gvishiani	119–129
10. ESP a variety of English and/or a type of language course? Uta Thürmer	131–139
11. Categorising in discourse: The case of Dutch ander Titus Ensink and Harrie Mazeland	141–153
12. SVOV in German and Dutch: Interface between discourse prominence and subject identification as a parsing requirement Werner Abraham	155–167
Part Three
13. Literacy in Dutch of poorly schooled adult immigrants from the Netherlands Antilles Jan Berenst	171–184
14. Medical discourse as professional and institutional action: Challenges to teaching and researching languages for special purposes Christopher N. Candlin	185–207
15. Content- and language-integrated learning, culture of education and learning theories Piet Van de Craen	209–220
16. Content-based language teaching: Language in the mathematics classroom J.Y. Deen and Hilde Hacquebord	221–236
17. Theoretical approaches to second-language learner varieties Peter Jordens	237–252
18. The role of form in language learning Leo van Lier	253–266
19. A methodology for evaluating the effectiveness of vocabulary treatments Paul Meara and Ignacio Rodríguez Sánchez	267–278
20. The place of knowledge about language in the mother tongue and foreign language curriculum Rosamond Mitchell and Christopher Brumfit	279–292
Part Four
21. Towards an alphabetical grammar of Modern Israeli Hebrew Wout J. van Bekkum and Hans Hamburger	295–309
22. The use of word frequency data in the teaching of English as an alternative/additional language: Reflections on recent EET-list experience and experiments Michaël Goethals	311–323
23. Helping advanced EFL learners improve their written English through self-correction tasks Pierre Kouraogo	325–339
24. A web-based foreign-language assistant John Nerbonne and Petra Smit	341–348
25. Subject didactics as the science of the foreign-language teaching profession Aud Marit Simensen	349–361
Index	363–366

“This book contains papers of interest to many language professionals, but it is most likely to complement the libraries of scholars in applied linguistics who tread the line between SLA and its application to teaching and who are interested in a kaleidoscopic view of contemporary, mostly European work in the field.”

John Angell, University of South Florida, in Studies in Second Language Acquisition Vol.26:1, 2003.

“This volume is indeed multidisciplinary, as the editors claims, and does, I think, go beyond the traditional festschrift in that it contains some of the finest papers in applied linguistics and educational linguistics to date.”

Li Wei, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, in The English Teacher: An International Journal, Vol. 6 (3), November 2003

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Subjects

Linguistics

Language acquisition

Language teaching

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

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