Homage to W. R. Lee : Essays in English As a Foreign or Second Language

Essays in English As a Foreign or Second Language

By: Arthur Van Essen (Editor), Edward I. Burkhart (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 December 1991

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Editors' Introduction	p. 1
Tributes
For William R. Lee: A Giant in His Field / A Man for All Seasons	p. 7
A Leeward Look	p. 9
IATEFL and FATEFL, the Trunk and the Branch	p. 11
Teaching and teacher training
The Proper Study of ELT	p. 21
Providing Opportunities for Learning: Teacher Training Experience	p. 29
The Importance of Understanding	p. 39
Curriculum Design for Teacher Training	p. 45
In-service Teacher Training and Teaching Through Activities. A Progress Report from Germany	p. 53
The Theologian and the Tightrope Walker	p. 67
On Teaching, Training and Learning: Some Reflections and Suggestions	p. 79
Research and the Language Teacher: What's the Use?	p. 85
Second Language Teaching and One-only Solutions	p. 93
Language Study and Language Learning	p. 103
Learning and the learner
Learning a Foreign Language: the 'Cognitive' Approach	p. 113
Learning to Spell in an Anglophone Setting	p. 117
Parental Support for Young Learners of English - An Underestimated Contributor to Success	p. 123
Let Them Read! - Later. Problems of Introducing Reading and Writing to Young Learners of English as a Foreign Language	p. 131
Observations on the Learning Styles of Adult Students	p. 139
Teaching Foreign Languages in French Primary Schools: A New Challenge	p. 145
Embarrassment in the Classroom	p. 153
The Notion of Habit and the Contemporary Language Learning/Teaching Paradigm	p. 165
Testing or Owls, Pebbles and Fans	p. 175
Cognitive Style and Individualization in the EFL Class	p. 185
Language and linguistics
Practical Problems, Practical Solutions	p. 197
Teaching in Key: A Tonal Proposition	p. 203
Attitudes of Southern African Linguists	p. 213
Translation and Functional Sentence Perspective (A Case Study of John 1.1-2)	p. 221
A Note on the Voicing of Initial /f-/ in English in the 15th Century: Onomastic Evidence	p. 233
The Problem of the [superscript *]Unable Lexicographer	p. 239
The Re-anglicisation of English	p. 243
Concepts, Contexts and Meaning: Learning to Learn Vocabulary	p. 247
A Study of the Intelligibility of Nigerian English	p. 255
Where Have All the Phoneticians Gone?	p. 261
Why do French-speakers have difficulty with coming and going?	p. 273
Language education and culture
Peace Education in the Foreign-Language Classroom: Chances - Challenges - Problems	p. 285
Cultural Contexts	p. 293
William R. Lee: Curriculum Vitae and Select List of Publications	p. 297
List of Contributors	p. 306
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