Spoken and Applied Linguistics

Author: (English) McCarthy
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: The author roughly categorizes everyday spoken language discourse types and applies them to corpus design and data collection. Based on genre theory, he conducts a qualitative analysis and description of the patterns of lexical and grammatical usage in the discourse, uncovering new regularities and patterns of language use. He explores the significance of these findings for English oral teaching, particularly in vocabulary and grammar instruction, as a language teaching model based on everyday spoken language. The book reflects on traditional teaching concepts and methods, proposing new teaching approaches. It is a summary of the author's spoken language research conducted from the 1980s to the mid-1990s. Part of the content (approximately half) consists of previously published articles, all of which have been significantly revised and data updated before re-publication. The other half is newly written content, with examples based on CANCODE corpus data. The book provides a typical example of qualitative analysis.