Susan Strauss, Parastou Feiz, Xuehua Xiang

Broschiertes Buch

Grammar, Meaning, and Concepts

A Discourse-Based Approach to English Grammar

Beschreibung

Grammar, Meaning, and Concepts: A Discourse-Based Approach to English Grammar is a book for language teachers and learners that focuses on the meanings of grammatical constructions within discourse, rather than on language as structure governed by rigid rules. This text emphasizes the ways in which users of language construct meaning, express viewpoints, and depict imageries using the conceptual, meaning-filled categories that underlie all of grammar. Written by a team of authors with years of experience teaching grammar to future teachers of English, this book puts grammar in the context of real language and illustrates grammar in use through an abundance of authentic data examples. Each chapter also provides a variety of activities that focus on grammar, genre, discourse, and meaning, which can be used as they are or can be adapted for classroom practice. The activities are also designed to raise awareness about discourse, grammar, and meaning in all facets of everyday life, and can be used as springboards for upper high school, undergraduate, and graduate level research projects and inquiry-based grammatical analysis. Grammar, Meaning, and Concepts is an ideal textbook for those in the areas of teacher education, discourse analysis, applied linguistics, second language teaching, ESL, EFL, and communications who are looking to teach and learn grammar from a dynamic perspective.

Autor

Susan Strauss is the mother of two children and grandmother to three grandsons. She has worked for fifty years as a speech therapist and a special education consultant. She has spent her entire life working with children as a babysitter, camp counselor, teacher, coach for her daughter's softball team, while being a mother and a grandmother. She loves reading stories to her grandsons and she hopes that children enjoy her story about Ellie as much as she enjoyed writing it. Everyone recognizes Susan as the one who gets a smile out of every child with whom she comes in contact.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 494
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 920g
• ISBN-13: 9781138785274
• ISBN-10: 113878527X
• Artikelnr.: 52714938