21st Century Surface Science : a Handbook

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910557155203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: IntechOpen
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

Structure and meaning in English : a guide for teachers / / Graeme Kennedy

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910955337003321
• Autore: Kennedy Graeme D.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• ISBN: 1-138-17454-8; 1-317-86972-9; 1-315-83605-X; 1-317-86971-0; 1-281-38478-X; 9786611384784; 1-4082-1172-6
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (407 p.)
• Disciplina: 428.0071; 428.24071
• Soggetti: English language - Study and teaching - Foreign speakers; English language - Grammar - Study and teaching
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "First published 2003 by Pearson Education Limited"--T.p. verso.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; Grammar and grammars; Studying grammar; Teaching grammar to learners of English; Chapter 1: The sounds of English; Objectives; 1.1 Speech sounds; 1.1.1 Sounds ; and symbols; 1.1.2 Practice in reading a phonemic transcription; 1.1.3 Food for thought on English spelling; 1.1.4 Phonemes and allophones; 1.2 The speech process and the organs of speech; 1.2.1 The airstream; 1.2.2 Voicing; 1.2.3 The oral-nasal process; 1.2.4 Advising learners; 1.3 English consonants; 1.3.1 Place of articulation; 1.3.2 Manner of articulation1.3.3 Voicing; 1.4 English vowels; 1.5 The distribution of English sounds; 1.5.1 Frequency of English phonemes; 1.5.2 Redundancy; 1.5.3 The positions that phonemes can occur in; 1.5.4 English consonant clusters; 1.5.5 Vowel sequences; 1.5.6 The effect of the environment in which sounds occur; 1.5.6.1 Linking; 1.5.6.2 Rhoticity; 1.5.6.3 Elision; 1.5.6.4 Assimilation; 1.5.6.5 Vowel length; 1.6 Prosodic features; 1.6.1 Stress; 1.6.1.1 Function word stress; 1.6.1.2 Content word stress; 1.6.1.3 Sentence stress and rhythm; 1.6.2 Intonation; 1.6.2.1 Intonation patterns; 1.6.2.2 Functions of intonation patterns1.7 Accents; 1.8 Learners' difficulties with English sounds; 1.8.1 Common problems; 1.8.2 Predicting pronunciation difficulties for learners of English; Chapter 2: Words and their meanings; Objectives; 2.1 Categories of words; 2.1.1 What is a word?; 2.1.2 Function words and content words; 2.1.3 Word classes; 2.1.4 Word lemmas; 2.1.5 Word families; 2.2 Word meanings and functions; 2.2.1 Sense; 2.2.2 Reference; 2.2.3 Connotation; 2.2.4 Word associations; 2.2.5 Semantic components of words; 2.2.6 Prototypes; 2.2.7 Extended meaning; 2.2.8 Polysemy; 2.2.9 Homonymy2.2.10 Synonymy; 2.2.11 Antonymy; 2.2.12 Hyponymy; 2.3 Categories of meaning; 2.3.1 Propositional meaning; 2.3.2 Modal meaning; 2.3.3 Social meaning; 2.4 Word structure and word formation; 2.4.1 Roots and affixes; 2.4.2 Types of affixes; 2.4.2.1 Inflectional affixes; 2.4.2.2 Derivational affixes; 2.4.3 Greek and Latin affixes; 2.4.4 Word formation; 2.4.4.1 Borrowing; 2.4.4.2 Word combinations; 2.4.4.3 Blends; 2.4.4.4 Conversion; 2.4.4.5 Abbreviations; 2.4.4.6 Acronyms; 2.5 Word compounds and collocations; 2.5.1 Compounds; 2.5.2 Collocations; 2.6 Word distribution; 2.6.1 High frequency words2.6.2 Academic words; 2.6.3 Technical words; 2.6.4 Low frequency words; 2.6.5 Information on word frequency from the British National Corpus; 2.6.6 An academic word list (AWL); Chapter 3: Simple sentence parts, structures and functions; Objectives; 3.1 Utterances and sentences; 3.2 Constituents and structures of simple sentences; 3.2.1 Word order; 3.2.2 Phrases; 3.2.3 Clause elements; 3.2.3.1 Subject; 3.2.3.2 Predicate; 3.3 Clause patterns; 3.3.1 Major clause patterns; 3.3.1.1 Pattern 1: SV; 3.3.1.2 Pattern 2: SVO; 3.3.1.3 Pattern 3: SVC; 3.3.1.4 Pattern 4: SVA; 3.3.1.5 Pattern 5: SVOO
• Sommario/riassunto: Structure and Meaning in English is designed to help teachers of English develop an understanding of those aspects of English which are especially relevant for learners who speak other languages. Using corpus research, Graeme Kennedy cuts to the heart of what is important in the teaching of English. The book provides pedagogically- relevant information about English at the levels of sounds, words, sentences and texts. It draws attention to those linguistic items and processes which research has shown are typically hard for learners and which lead to errors.Each chapter