Essential linguistics

Аннотация

English language teaching methods, cross-cultural communication, and linguistics. While the first three courses are usually regarded as useful and interesting, many teachers and teacher candidates are apprehensive and some are even resentful as they enter a linguistics class. They are nervous about having to take the class, and, at the same time, suspect it will be of no use. Few classes, with the possible exception of statistics, trigger such strong emotions. Of course, some students look forward to taking a course in linguistics. They regard the study of language as interesting. Unfortunately, such students are in the minority. Many students connect “linguistics” with “grammar,” which, in turn, triggers thoughts of identifying parts of speech—nouns, verbs, and conjunctions.