ELT: Harmony and Diversity
About this ebook
The volume contains 18 chapters that are organized in four main sections dedicated to broad fields in ELT. The first, “Issues in Grammar Teaching and EAP,” starts with a paper by David Newby on his very individual take on a cognitive-communicative grammar. This important contribution sketches a hybrid grammar model with underpinnings in recent findings in cognitive linguistics. The second section, entitled “Teaching Expressivity and Culture” offers a diverse array of studies that include, among other contributions, a systematic survey of English address forms used by non-native speakers by Josef Nevařil and Blanka Babická, and a paper on the heterogeneous situation of English and French as competitors in Cameroon by Samuel Atechi. Section number three is the most technical with studies on “Methodology, Technology and ELT.” This section also spans across all levels of language teaching. In it, Natalia Orlova for example analyzes the self-perception of teachers. The final section collects shorter contributions, including, for example, reflections on a networked teaching of tenses by Stanislava Kaiserová.
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Natalia Orlova is the Head of the Department of English and Associate Professor of TEFL at the Faculty of Education, University of J. E. Purkyne in Usti nad Labem. She has also worked at Herzen State Pedagogical University in Saint-Petersburg, Russian Federation. She has given presentations at various TESOL conventions in the USA and has held workshops for teachers in variety of countries. She is also a co-author of textbooks for school and university students. Her main research interests include ways of developing pre-service EFL teachers’ professional competence and cross-cultural issues. Currently, she heads the EU-funded project NEFLT.
