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This volume examines linguistics, language acquisition, and language variation, emphasizing their implications for teacher education and language education. A majority of the essays consider issues in second language acquisition, dealing specifically with learners and instructors, or concentrating on the larger social and societal context in which learning and acquisition occur. Topics highlighted include the current and often controversial debate over bilingual education, language variation, and the past, present, and future role of linguistics in language pedagogy.
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cover title: author: publisher: isbn10 | asin: print isbn13: ebook isbn13: language: subject publication date: lcc: ddc: subject: next page > Linguistics, Language Acquisition, and Language Variation : Current Trends and Future Prospects Georgetown University Round Table On Languages and Linguistics (Series) ; 1996 Alatis, James E. Georgetown University Press 0878401318 9780878401314 9780585223292 English Linguistics--Congresses, Language and languages--Study and teaching--Congresses, Language acquisition--Congresses. 1996 P53E38 1996eb 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 1996 Linguistics, Language Acquisition, and Language Variation: Current Trends and Future Prospects James E. Alatis, Carolyn A. Straehle, Maggie Ronkin, and Brent Gallenberger, Editors Georgetown University Press, Washington, D.C. < previous=""> page_i next page > < previous=""> page_ii next page > Page ii Bibliographic notice Since this series has been variously and confusingly cited as Georgetown University Monograph Series on Languages and Linguistics, Monograph Series on Languages and Linguistics, Reports of the Annual Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Study, etc., beginning with the 1973 volume the title of the series was changed. The new 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 1996, with the regular abbreviation GURT '96. Full bibliographic references should show the form: Crystal, David. 1996. "Playing with linguistic problems: From Orwell to Plato and back again." In James E. Alatis et al. (eds.), Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1996. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press. 529. Copyright © 1996 by Georgetown University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Catalog Number: ISBN 0-87840-131-8 ISSN 0186-7207 < previous=""> page_ii next page > < previous=""> page_iii next page > Page iii This volume is dedicated to Earl W. Stevick, Ph.D., Pioneer in the field of language teaching. < previous=""> page_iii next page > < previous=""> page_ii intentionally left blank next page > < previous=""> next page > page_v Page v Contents Introduction to the volume James E. Alatis, Carolyn A. Straehle, Maggie Ronkin, and Brent Gallenberger, Georgetown University 12 Opening and dedication Dedication of Round Table Proceedings to Earl W. Stevick James E. Alatis, Georgetown University 34 Playing with linguistic problems: From Orwell to Plato and back again David Crystal, University of Wales, Bangor 529 Language acquisition: Politics and policies Language development in two-way immersi