...in the key academic skills that all students need, such as listening to lectures and speaking in seminars. It also equips students with the specialist language they need to participate successfully within a linguistics faculty. Extensive listening exercises come from language and linguistics lectures, and all reading texts are taken from the same field of study. There is also a focus throughout on the key linguistics vocabulary that students will need.
Contents
Unit 1: What is linguistics?Unit 2: Developments in linguisticsUnit 3: Language acquisition and learningUnit 4: Language and technologyUnit 5: Language and societyUnit 6: English language teachingUnit 7: Language testingUnit 8: The spread of EnglishUnit 9: Translating and interpretingUnit 10: Discourse analysisUnit 11: Pronunciation and phonologyUnit 12: Grammar