Explorations in Applied Linguistics 2

Explorations in Applied Linguistics 2

H. G. Widdowson 1984

Publisher: Oxford University Press

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The papers in this book are further enquiries into issues raised in its predecessor of the same title, and in particular they seek to discharge the responsibility of applied linguistics, as stated in the earlier book (and restated in the first Section of this one), to devise a coherent model of linguistic description which will be
relevant to language teaching. As before, the papers here are in some respects a varied assortment.
They were prepared at different times and so mark different stages in the conceptualization of the matters concerned. Some focus attention on descriptive issues, others attend more closely to pedagogic ones. Again, some papers were written within an academic framework and key their arguments in with the publications of other people, acknowledged by citation and reference in the approved scholarly fashion; other papers, more popular in intention and designed to be performed, dispense with these accoutrements of scholarship altogether.