This book introduces key concepts in complexity theory and demonstrates the applicability and usefulness of these concepts to a range of areas in applied linguistics, including first and second language development, language teaching, and discourse analysis.

Complex Systems and Applied Linguistics (Oxford Applied Linguistics)

Reference

Diane Larsen-Freeman

English as a Second Language

Oxford University Press

A must-read for every language teaching professional, Teaching Language: From Grammar to Grammaring explores the regular, predictable elements of language as well as the potential creativity of its underlying system. By combining a wide range of view points with her own personal experiences and studies, Diane Larsen-Freeman challenges the static descriptive ideas of grammar, based on rules, and promotes the more fluid and dynamic notions of reason-driven grammaring, which she defines as "the ability to use grammar structures accurately, meaningfully, and appropriately." The reader is left not with an encyclopedic set of definitions, but rather with a deeper understanding of the organic nature of language and its acquisition, and a honed set of tools with which to approach language in language teaching.

Teaching Language: From Grammar to Grammaring

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Heinle ELT

This four-level series systematically addresses the form, meaning and use of each structure. It focusese learners' attention on the greatest challenge for each structure to help them communicate accurately, meaningfully, and appropriately.

Grammar Dimensions: Form, Meaning, and Use, Book 3B, Second Edition

Heinle & Heinle Publishers

This four-level series systematically addresses the form, meaning and use of each structure. It focuses learners' attention on the greatest challenge for each structure to help them communicate accurately, meaningfully, and appropriately.

4a-Grammar Dimensions-2e

Jan Frodesen

Janet Eyring

Marianne Celce-Murcia

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

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