Comparative Linguistics (As applied to learning and teaching English as a foreign language: some basic theory).

Bennett, Margaret

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Comparative Linguistics (As applied to learning and teaching English as a foreign language: some basic theory)

Bennett, Margaret

Australian Journal of Adult Education, 11, 2, 108-113, Jul 71

Discusses new understanding of the nature of language and of the importance of training teachers in the use of materials and equipment which have developed from this understanding. Language is basically patterns of sound, constantly changing in time, place and situation; patterns of sound appropriate to patterned social behaviour. (RB)

Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Universals, Second Language Learning, Syntax, Teaching Methods, Theories

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