scholarly journals The elusive ellipsis – the complex history of a vague grammatical concept in need of empirical grounding

Lege Artis ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 163-201
Author(s):  
Katrin Menzel
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
German Language ◽  
Foreign Language Pedagogy ◽  
Language Pedagogy ◽  
History Of ◽  
Text Cohesion ◽  
Language Pair

Abstract This paper reports a part of the larger corpus-based study, which investigates English- German contrasts in text cohesion and discourse organisation. It has its focus on ellipsis-antecedent-relations that contribute to the cohesiveness of texts. The present work is intended to contribute to the development of a discourse-oriented contrastive grammar on the English-German language pair with relevance to theoretical and applied linguistics, translation studies and foreign language pedagogy.

scholarly journals Deutsch im Vergleich. Sprachliche Strukturen im Kontrast zum Italienischen

2021 ◽  
Vol 111 (6) ◽  
pp. 3-10
Author(s):  
Peggy Katelhön ◽  
Marina Brambilla ◽  
Albana Muco
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
German Language ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
The Common ◽  
Contrastive Linguistics ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Linguistic Structures ◽  
Oriented Approach ◽  
Language Pair

This thematic issue of Linguistik online is dedicated to Contrastive linguistics for the language pair Italian-German. The contributions collected here deal with Italian-German language comparison from different points of view. The common feature of all of them is a corpus-oriented approach. Using authentic attestations from different linguistic sources, the linguistic structures of both languages are analysed and compared with each other. The granular and fine-grained comparison enabled the authors to work out interesting results not only in the fields of morphology and syntax, but also for pragmatics, and text and discourse linguistics for both languages, which can be profitably used in foreign language didactics, theoretical linguistics and translation studies.

scholarly journals Transdisciplinarity across two-tiers

AILA Review ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 29-52
Author(s):  
Chantelle Warner
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Modern Language Association ◽  
Affective Labor ◽  
Modern Language ◽  
Language Pedagogy ◽  
Language And Literature ◽  
Status Differences

Abstract In the ten years since the Modern Language Association published their report, “Foreign Languages and Higher Education: New Structures for a Changed World” (2007) dissatisfaction with the “two-tiered configuration” of US foreign language departments has become increasingly vocal. While the target of the criticism is often the curriculum, it has often been noted that programmatic bifurcations mirror institutional hierarchies, e.g. status differences between specialists in literary and cultural studies and experts in applied linguistics and language pedagogy (e.g. Maxim et al., 2013; Allen & Maxim, 2012). This chapter looks at the two-tiered structure of collegiate modern language departments from the perspectives of the transdisciplinary shape-shifters who maneuver within them – scholars working between applied linguistics and literary studies. These individuals must negotiate the methodologies and the institutional positions available to them – in many instances, the latter is what has prompted them to work between fields in the first place. The particular context of US foreign language and literature departments serves as a case study of the lived experiences of doing transdisciplinary work in contexts that are characterized by disciplinary hierarchies and the chapter ends with a call for applied linguistics to consider not only the epistemic, but also the institutional and affective labor needed to sustain transdisciplinary work.

Meaningful literacy: Writing poetry in the language classroom

2011 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
David I. Hanauer
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Literacy Learning ◽  
Language Learner ◽  
Foreign Language Pedagogy ◽  
Language Pedagogy ◽  
The Third ◽  
Language Classroom ◽  
Poetry Writing ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Meaningful Literacy

This paper develops the concept of meaningful literacy and offers a classroom methodology – poetry writing – that manifests this approach to ESL/EFL literacy instruction. The paper is divided into three sections. The first deals with the concept of meaningful literacy learning in second and foreign language pedagogy; the second summarizes empirical evidence that characterizes second language (L2) poetry writing; and the third describes the practical aspects of teaching poetry writing. This approach is presented as a way of humanizing the second and foreign language classroom by refocusing on the individual language learner as the center of the learning process.

Research into Communicative Language Teaching

1987 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 109-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosamond Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Communicative Language Teaching ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Major Research ◽  
Foreign Language Pedagogy ◽  
Language Pedagogy ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Research Problems ◽  
Special Case

The problems of research into communicative language teaching are a special case of the problems facing research into any kind of foreign language pedagogy. They also overlap to a considerable degree with those facing any research in teaching, regardless of subject matter. This article reviews a range of research approaches which have been, or might be, used in researching various dimensions of communicative language teaching. It draws on the general literature on educational research methods to some extent, and on the general language pedagogy research literature, as well as on the growing body of research literature on communicative language teaching. This is not an exhaustive survey, however; instead, a limited number of studies are chosen for discussion so as to exemplify the major research problems and approaches.

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