DAVIES A ALAN / ELDER C CATHERINE

Broschiertes Buch

The Handbook of Applied Linguistics

Beschreibung

The Handbook of Applied Linguistics is a collection of over 30 original articles that provide a comprehensive and up-to-date picture of the field of applied linguistics. The handbook is divided in parts that demonstrate the two main approaches to the field: applications of linguistics to real world language data with the purpose of further understanding language and evaluating linguistic theory; and the problem-based approach that investigates real world language with the purpose of understanding language use and ameliorating social problems. The handbook presents applied linguistics as an independent and coherent discipline that seeks to unify practical experience and theoretical understanding of language development and language in use, and is a valuable resource for students and researchers in applied linguistics, language teaching, and second language acquisition.

Autor

Alan Davies is Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh. His publications include Principles of Language Testing (1990), An Introduction to Applied Linguistics (1999), and The Native Speaker: Myth and Reality (2003). Catherine Elder is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. She is the author, with Alan Davies et al., of the Dictionary of Language Testing (1999) and co-editor of Experimenting with Uncertainty (2001).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 896
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 47mm
• Gewicht: 1499g
• ISBN-13: 9781405138093
• ISBN-10: 1405138092
• Artikelnr.: 21511400

Rezensionen

"Handsomely produced, and very attractive visually. Theeditors, Alan Davies and Catherine Elder, are leading experts inapplied linguistics and they have assembled a strong group ofcontributors to the enterprise... The Handbook of AppliedLinguistics should be in every academic library, and I wouldrecommend that applied linguists look at it, note specific chaptersof interest, and read over those chapters carefully... Becauseof the depth allowed for each chapter, there is muchthought-provoking material and many ideas that may challenge aswell as support established positions." LanguageTeaching Research

"In the vast quarry of theories and interdisciplinaryinvestigations of applied linguistics this rigorous and scholarlybook is an

authoritative guide to the focal issues. It providesboth original and important contributions to the literature as wellas signposts to the future." John C. Maher,International Christian University, Tokyo

"In its forty years of activity, applied linguistics hasbeen concerned to define itself, its extent, and its relations withrelated fields. This handbook, edited by Davies and CatherineElder, brings the issues up-to-date, providing not just a clearaccount of current work in the branches of the field by thirty ofthe best-known practitioners, but a cogent perspective justifyingtreating applied linguistics as an independent and uniteddiscipline." Bernard Spolsky, Bar-IlanUniversity

"This is a linguistically sophisticated, pedagogicallysound, research oriented, interdisciplinary approach at definingapplied linguistics as a discipline in its own right that should bein every applied linguist's library. A vade mecum."James E. Alatis, Georgetown University

"Davies and Elder are to be congratulated for the Handbookin Applied Linguistics. The handbook reflects the historicalevolution of thinking in applied linguistics, its emergingdimensions, and successfully captures the nature of an internalcritique of applied linguistics within applied linguistics. Becauseapplied linguistics is firmly embedded within western appliedlinguistics, the handbook book forces us to reflect on the naturenon-western applied linguistics might take." SinfreeMakoni, Pennsylvania State University