Research Catalog

Title

Educational linguistics, crosscultural communication, and global interdependence / James E. Alatis, editor.

Author

Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (1994)

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

Alatis, James E.

Description

402 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

• Georgetown University round table on languages and linguistics
• Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics. Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1994.

Alternative Title

GURT '94

Subject

• Language and education > Congresses
• Language and languages > Congresses
• Language and languages > Study and teaching > Congresses
• Intercultural communication > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Congresses (form)

Note

• "ISSN 0186-7207"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• In memory of the Rev. Francis P. Dinneen, S.J. / James E. Alatis -- The speaking tree: a medium of plural canons / Braj B. Kachru -- The triumph of the yell / Deborah Tannen -- Teaching culture in the language classroom: toward a new philosophy / Rebecca L. Oxford -- Toward an acquisition-oriented syllabus / Gen-yuan Zhuang -- The use of langage tests for power and control / Elana Shohamy - The impact of college entrance examinations on high school ESL/EFL writing / Chen-ching Li -- The beginnings of language testing as a profession / Bernard Spolsky -- Retooling for communication: Hungary reorients its FL teaching / Katalin Nyikos -- Lanugage choices for West Africa in the global village / Jerry Cline-Bailey -- Politeness across cultures: implications for second language teaching / Ayo Bamgbose.
• What do "yes" and "no" really mean in Chinese? / Yu-hwei E. Lii-Shih -- Culture, discourse, and choice of structure / Ren Shaozeng -- Teaching global interdependence as a subversive activity / H. Douglas Brown -- Educational linguistics and the knowledge base of language teaching / Donald Freeman -- Educational linguistics: field and project / Leo van Lier -- Locating contingency in e-mail / Celeste Kinginger -- Computer-based classrooms for language teaching / Stephanie J. Stauffer -- Organized Babel: English as a global lingua franca / Tom McArthur -- The fiction of the native speaker in L2 research / Eyamba G. Bokamba -- French native-speaker use of the subjunctive in speech and writing / Nadine O'Conner Di Vito -- The language educator at work in the learner-centered classroom: communicate, decision-make, and remember to apply the (educational) linguistics / Teresa Pica.
• Crosscultural communication and comparative terminology / Faina Citkina -- The pleasure hypothesis / Stephen Krashen -- A model for learning strategies instruction in the foreign language classroom / Anna Uhl Chamot -- Educational linguistics and coheren curriculum development: the crucial link / Ronald P. Leow -- An alternaive to mainstream U.S.educational discourse: implications for minority identity development / Rebecca Freeman -- Educational linguistics: looking to the East / Anne Pakir -- The sources of language teachers' instructional decisions / Jack C. Richards.

ISBN

0878401296

OCLC

• 32643959
• SCSB-13399007

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library