Editor(s): Toolan, Michael. Num Pages: 190 pages, 11 black & white tables, 9 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: CB; CF; JNU. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 300. . 2011. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . .

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Title: Language Teaching: Integrational Linguistic Approaches (Routledge Advances in Communication and Linguistic Theory)
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 2011
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0415808065
ISBN 13: 9780415808064
Binding: Soft cover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: New

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This book demonstrates the relevance of an integrational linguistic perspective to a practical, real-world need, namely the learning of languages. Integrational linguistics’ shunning of both realist and structuralist theories of language, its commitment to an unwavering attention to the perspective of the language user, and its adherence to a semiology in which signs are the situated products of interactants interpretive behaviour, mean that it radically reconceptualizes language learning and language teaching. Detractors have implied that IL is so ‘philosophical’ or ‘theoretical’ an exercise that it has no useful bearing on the practical problems of language learning. These papers refute that misconception by demonstrating how an IL stance can help disentangle the conflicting considerations and contradictory assumptions that arise in a host of language teaching situations: first, second- and foreign-language classrooms in a diversity of settings (including India, Australia, the United States, and Hong Kong), with different age-groups of students, whether the focus is on speech or writing, and in more informal settings.

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Michael Toolan is Head of the Department of English at the University of Birmingham. His books include Total Speech: An Integrational Linguistic Approach to Language (1996), Language in Literature (1998), and Narrative (2nd edition: 2001). His Narrative Progression in the Short Story: A Corpus Stylistic Approach is forthcoming from Benjamins.

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