Principle and Practice in Applied Linguistics: Studies in Honour of H. G. Widdowson (Oxford Applied Linguistics) [Paperback]

Guy Cook (Author), Barbara Seidlhofer (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0194421481 | ISBN-13: 978-0194421485 | Publication Date: September 7, 1995

This book provides an overview of the diverse issues in applied linguistics today. Leading specialists consider the relation of their own areas of inquiry both to professional practice and to the discipline as a whole.

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'... essential reading at an affordable price: the editors and OUP have done us proud.' - IATEFL Newsletter

About the Author

Professor Henry Widdowson is Emeritus Professor of Education, University of London, and has also been Professor of Applied Linguistics at Essex University and Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Vienna. Guy Cook is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Reading. He has worked as an EFL teacher in Egypt, Italy, the UK, and Russia, as a lecturer at the University of Leeds, and as head of TESOL at the London University Institute of Education. He has been an invited speaker at universities and major conferences in many countries, and has published widely on discourse analysis, the theory and practice of language teaching, literature teaching, translation, and language play. Barbara Seidlhofer has taught German in the UK and currently works as a researcher and Professor in Linguistics and Methodology in the English Department at Vienna University.

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• Paperback: 450 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (September 7, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0194421481
• ISBN-13: 978-0194421485
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 1.2 inches
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4.0 out of 5 stars a collection of useful articles, July 11, 2001

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This review is from: Principle and Practice in Applied Linguistics: Studies in Honour of H. G. Widdowson (Oxford Applied Linguistics) (Paperback)

This "Festschrift" for Henry Widdowson is littered by contributions from the creme de la creme of applied linguistics. Claire Kramsch, for instanc,e writes about the relation between applied linguist and language teacher while N.S Prabhu explores concept and conduct in language theory and Alan Davies contributes to the native speaker debate. Other contributers include Yamuna Kachru, Braj Kachru, Joseph Bisong and Bernard Spolsky.

This book can be recommended to readers who would like to have an overview of the work of many well known linguistics in one volume.