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| Applied Linguistics | 1 |
| Contrastive Linguistics | 1 |
| Descriptive Linguistics | 1 |
| Interference (Language) | 1 |
| Language Instruction | 1 |
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| Second Language Learning | 1 |
| Second Languages | 1 |
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| Journal of English Teaching | 1 |
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| Mackey, W. F. | 1 |
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Download full textMackey, W. F. – Journal of English Teaching, 1968
The author discusses claims that linguistics can solve the problems of language teaching. Linguistics is either a theory of language or a description of a particular language, and both vary greatly from investigator to investigator, both as to scope and substance. Linguistic "analysis is the business of the linguist" but it is not essential to the…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, Interference (Language)
