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cover title: author: publisher: isbn10 | asin: print isbn13: ebook isbn13: language: subject publication date: lcc: ddc: subject: next page > Linguistics and Language Pedagogy : The State of the Art Georgetown University Round Table On Languages and Linguistics (Series) ; 1991 Alatis, James E. Georgetown University Press 0878401261 9780878401260 9780585223315 English Linguistics--Congresses, Language and languages--Study and teaching--Congresses, Language acquisition--Congresses. 1991 P53E38 1991eb 301.21 Linguistics--Congresses, Language and languages--Study and teaching--Congresses, Language acquisition--Congresses. cover next page > < previous=""> page_i next page > Page i Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1991 Linguistics and Language Pedagogy: The State of the Art James E. Alatis, Editor Georgetown University Press, Washington, D.C. < previous=""> page_i next page > < previous=""> page_ii next page > Page ii Bibliographic notice The title of the series includes the year of a Round Table and omits both the monograph number and the meeting number, thus: Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1991, with the regular abbreviation GURT '91. Full bibliographic references should show the form: Byrnes, Heidi. 1991. In search of a sense of place: The state of the art in language teaching methodology. In: Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1991. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press. Copyright © 1991 by Georgetown University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Catalog Number: 58-31607 ISBN 0-87840-126-1 ISSN 0186-7207 < previous=""> page_ii next page > < previous=""> next page > page_iii Page iii Contents Welcoming Remarks James E. Alatis, Dean, Georgetown University School of Languages and Linguistics, and Chair, Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1991 1 Some Words of Greeting Rita Esquivel, Director, Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs, U.S. Department of Education 5 H.G. Widdowson: An Introduction James E. Alatis, Dean, Georgetown University School of Languages and Linguistics 9 In Memoriam Peter D. Strevens, 1922-1989/ 10 The Description and Prescription of Language H.G. Widdowson, University of London 11 `Mistaken Constructs': Re-Examining the Nature and Assumptions of Language Teacher Education Donald Freeman, School for International Training 25 What Can Peers Provide? Mary McGroarty, Northern Arizona University 40 What Counts as Formal Language Instruction? Problems in Observation and Analysis of Classroom Teaching Craig Chaudron, University of Hawai'i at Manoa 56 Reflective Teachers Vicki Galloway, Georgia Institute of Technology 65 Content Knowledge and Instructional Practice in Second Language Teacher Education Jack C. Richards, City Polytechnic of Hong Kong 76 Teaching Vocabulary: The Current Word Edward M. Anthony and Lionel Menasche, University of Pittsburgh 100 Second Culture Acquisition Gail L. Robinson, San Diego State University 114 < previous=""> page_iii next page > < previous=""> next page > page_iv Page iv Dangerous Liaisons: Pitfalls in Second Language Reading Research Sandra Silberstein, University of Washington 123 A Pedagogy of Corporate-Level ESP Training for International Scientists and Engineers Sandra C. Browne, Language Consultant