Fwd: Re: Textbook for applied ling?

[Ronald Kephart]

Alena accidentally sent this to just me, and she asked me to forward
it in case anyone else might could use the information. -Ron

>Hello, Ron,
>
>You might want to take a look at Lynn Berk's _English syntax: from
>word to discourse_ (Oxford UP, 1999).  I know that when she was
>writing it, she intended it to be useful to teachers facing
>multilingual/multicultural teaching situations without any training
>in linguistics, so it may prove suitable for the course you are
>proposing.
>
>--Alena
>
>>From: Ronald Kephart <rkephart at unf.edu>
>>To: linganth at cc.rochester.edu
>>Subject: Textbook for applied ling?
>>Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 08:36:18 -0400
>>
>>Hi All,
>>
>>I've probably asked this before, but here goes again... In the
>>spring semester I'll be teaching a graduate level course titled
>>"ESOL Applied Linguistics." This course is geared toward the ESOL
>>endorsement that teachers here in Florida need on their
>>certificates. The problem is, there's no prerequisite, so most of
>>the students have not had a linguistics course before. So, the
>>course ends up being an intro to basic concepts in linguistics, but
>>with a tilt in the direction of issues faced by teachers in
>>multilingual settings.
>>
>>For the past few times around I've been using Cleary and Linn's
>>*Linguistics for Teachers*, but it's becoming a bit dated and also
>>somewhat hard to get. Everything else I've been able to look at
>>seems too specialized in the direction of second language teaching.
>>I *wish* I could find an up to date version of the old *Survey of
>>Applied Linguistics* by Wardhaugh and Brown, a single text that
>>would give students an idea of the breadth of the field. Does such
>>a thing exist (or do we have to write one >:-])?  Does anyone know
>>of anything that remotely approximates what I'm looking for?
>>
>>Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
>>
>>Ron
>>
>>Ronald Kephart
>>Associate Professor
>>English and Foreign Languages
>>University of North Florida
>>Jacksonville, FL USA
>>http://www.unf.edu/~rkephart/
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