Describing and Explaining Grammar and Vocabulary in ELT

Dilin Liu is Professor of Applied Linguistics/TESOL, Department of English, The University of Alabama, USA.

• ContentsPrefaceChapter 1 Language Description: Purview, Importance, and Principles1.1 Introduction1.2 The purview of language description1.3 The importance of language description1.4 Principles for language descriptionPart I: Foundations: Key theories and approaches to language descriptionChapter 2. . Prescriptive, Structural, and Generative Linguistics2.1 Prescriptivism 2.2 Structuralism2.3 Generativism Chapter 3. Sociolinguistics and Systemic Functional Linguistics 3.1 Sociolinguistics: An overview of Communicative Competence and Speech3.2 Systemic functional linguistics: An overview 3.3 The impacts of sociolinguistics and SFL on language teaching Chapter 4. . . Cognitive Linguistics4.1 Theoretical underpinnings and important basic concepts4.2 Cognitive Linguistics-inspired language description Chapter 5. . . Corpus Linguistics5.1 Overview5.2 Significant contributions of corpus linguistics to the study of language5.3 Impact of corpus linguistics on language teaching Part II: Putting Theory to Practice: Striving for Enhanced LanguageDescription and ExplanationChapter 6. . . Vocabulary Description: Basics, Parts of Speech, and OtherChallenging Issues6.1 What information should be covered in teaching a word?6.2 Describing/teaching spelling, pronunciation, and morphological rules6.3 Defining/teaching parts of speech 6.4 Collocations/semantics/register: Other key issues to be addressed 6.5 Explaining/teaching challenging issues with new insights Chapter 7. . . Sentence Structure Description: Basics, Verb Structure/ Subcategorization, and Other Challenging Structural Issues7.1 Sentence structural analysis: Tasks and processes7.2 Established practices for describing/analyzing sentence structures7.3 Explaining/teaching challenging issues with new insightChapter 8. . . Tense and Aspect8.1 English tense and aspect system: An overview8.2 Established useful practices for describing/teaching prepositions 8.3 Explaining/teaching challenging issues with new insights Chapter 9. . . Articles 9.1 The English article system: An overview9.2 Established useful practices in describing/teaching English articles9.3 Explaining/teaching challenging issues with new insights Chapter 10. . Prepositions, Prepositional Adjectives/Adverbs, and Particles 10.1 Overview: Basic information, importance, and difficulties 10.2 Established useful practices for describing and teaching prepositions 10.3 Explaining/teaching challenging issues with new insightsChapter 11. . Structural Alternation: English Object Placement, Subject/ObjectDeletion, and the Passive voice 11.1 Explaining/teaching object placement with new insights11.2 Explaining/teaching subject/object deletion with new insights11.3 Explaining/teaching the passive voice with new insightsChapter 12. . Word Meaning and Usage: Polysemy, Synonymy, Culturally-Loaded Words, and Register 12.1 Polysemy: An overview12.2 Synonymy12.3 Established useful practices for teaching polysemes and synonyms12.4 Explaining/teaching challenging issues with new insights Chapter 13. . Word Collocations 13.1 Overview of collocations 13.2 Established useful practices in collocation teaching 13.3 Explaining/teaching collocations and collostructions with new insights Chapter 14. . Multi-Word Expressions: Idioms, Phrasal Verbs, and Formulae/ Lexical Bundles14.1 Describing idioms/phrasal verbs/formulae and their functions14.2 Explaining/teaching idioms and phrasal verbs with new insights 14.3 Explaining and teaching formulae/lexical bundles with new insights Annotated List of Free Online Resources for Grammar/Vocabulary Learning/ TeachingGlossary

"The book, while packed with information about grammar and vocabulary, has useful examples throughout, which makes it both interesting to read and enlightening. It is likely that all of us, language teachers, will want to have it on our bookshelves." - tesolanz news