Hi, John. It's been a while. . . . I've done a bit of searching for good
applied linguistics texts over the past couple years. A few
recommendations.
If you want the broadest survey-type text, maybe the best short,
accessible, and inexpensive choice is Guy Cook's Applied Lingistics.
It's part of the Oxford "Intro to Language Study" series, so it has the
benefit of offering a nice assortment of short excerpts from primary sources to
go along with Cooks overview. A recent and more extensive survey-anthology
that's more challenging is Norbert Schmitt's (ed.) Introduction to Applied
Linguistics (Arnold Publ.). For me, the classic anthology has always been
Allen & Linn's (eds.) Readings in Applied Linguistics (Knopf),
but I have no idea if there's anything like a recent edition of that book.
The two main areas of application students in a Dept. of Ed. are likely to
find most useful are teaching and stylistics. For the former, check out Denham
and Lobeck's (eds.) Language in the Schools (Erlbaum) and perhaps
McDonough's Applied Linguistics in Language Education (Arnold). For
stylistics, the classic, but dated source is Traugott & Pratt's
Linguistics for Students of Literature (Harcourt). I've also just
picked up a great collection that's not too terribly dated edited by Weber
called The Stylistics Reader (Arnold). I'm very partial to Simpson's
Stylistics (Routledge), which also includes excerpts of some good
primary sources.
Often these days, the rubric "applied linguistics" is replaced by
"discourse studies." A few good applied texts with a very broad view
of discourse that really doesn't exclude grammar or semantics (so coming
mainly out of the Halliday functional linguistic tradition) include Evelyn
Hatch's Discourse and Language Education (Cambridge), Guy Cook's
Discourse (Oxford), and Joan Cutting's Pragmatics and Discourse
(Routledge), with the latter again including excerpts from canonical
sources.
Have fun with this class, John!
Jeff
Dr. Jeff Wiemelt
English Department
Director of Freshman
English
Southeastern Louisiana University
985-549-5761
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Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 8:03
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Subject: Applied Linguistics Text
I have just been assigned (much to my delight) to teach the
senior level Applied Linguistics course for the Dept. of Education. This
is a required course for most Ed majors on our campus. Groups like Phys
Ed majors are excluded, but the majority of the students will certainly NOT be
prospective English teachers--they will be a very small minority.
What
textbook(s) would best be suited for this particular audience? Any
suggestions would be deeply appreciated.
Thanks,
John
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