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Fundamental Concepts of Language Teaching
Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Applied Linguistic Research

H. H. Stern

Price: £31.00 (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-437065-3
Publication date: 24 March 1983
592 pages, line drawings, 234x156 mm
Series: Oxford Applied Linguistics
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Description
Professor Stern puts applied linguistics research into its historical and interdisciplinary perspective. He gives an authoritative survey of past developments worldwide and establishes a set of guidelines for the future. There are six parts: Clearing the Ground, Historical Perspectives, Concepts of Language, Concepts of Society, Concepts of Language Learning, and Concepts of Language Teaching.

Contents
Introduction
PART ONE: Clearing the ground
1. Talking about language teaching
2. Theory and practice
3. Towards a conceptual framework
4. Research
PART TWO: Historical perspectives
5. Approaches and studies
6. A sketch of recent and current trends: 1880-1980
PART THREE: Concepts of language
7. Trends in linguistic theory
8. Linguistic theory and language teaching: emergence of a relationship
9. Linguistic theory and language teaching: reassessment and current status
PART FOUR: Concepts of society
10. Society, culture, and language
11. Aspects of sociolinguistics
12. The social sciences and the second language curriculum
13. The sociology of language teaching and learning
PART FIVE: Concepts of language learning
14. Psychological approaches to language and learning
15. Development of a psychological perspective in language teaching: a selective review
16. Models of second language learning and the concept of proficiency
17. Learner factors
18. Conditions of learning and the learning process
PART SIX: Concepts of language teaching
19. The study of education and its relevance to language teaching
20. Language teaching theories as theories of teaching method
21. The break with the method concept
22. An educational interpretation of language teaching
Conclusion
Bibliography and citation index
Index

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H. H. Stern


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Applied linguistics for ELT
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