ELT: Harmony and Diversity

Product Description


The volume is a result of the latest conference in a series of ELT conferences at Purkinye University, Usti nad Labem. It contains submissions by national and international scholars with contributions relevant to applied linguistics and education, ELT methodology, TEFL/TESOL and cultural studies. This volume reflects, on the one hand, the international spectrum of activities, and, on the other, the more locally focused research projects of individuals which are displayed in the various articles in this volume. Further, this volume represents a comprehensive companion piece to the 2011 volume ELT: Converging Approaches and Challenges, edited by Christoph Haase and Natalia Orlova. 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 Nevaril and Blanka Babicka, 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 Kaiservoa.


About the Author


Christoph Haase is a Researcher and Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics. With a background in the natural sciences and in English and German linguistics, he is primarily interested in morphosyntactic phenomena of temporality and causation from a cognitive perspective. His other research interests are in first and second language acquisition, English language teaching, and corpus studies in the field of English for academic purposes. After 10 years at German universities, he currently works at the English Department at the University of J. E. Purkyne, Usti nad Labem. 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.