Language Play, Language Learning
Guy Cook, "Language Play, Language Learning"
Ox..rd U..ty Press, USA | 2000 | ISBN: 0194421538 | 235 pages | PDF | 27,7 MB
Ox..rd U..ty Press, USA | 2000 | ISBN: 0194421538 | 235 pages | PDF | 27,7 MB
This book demonstrates the extent and importance of language play in human life and draws out the implications for applied linguistics and language teaching. It stresses how language play is central to human thought and culture, learning, creativity, and intellectual development.
Review
'This far-ranging study demonstrates immense erudition in its sweep of scientific, cultural, and pedagogical theory, and points the way to linking opposing notions of language acquisition. Cook's work moves the profession away from a language learning centred on myopically practical, quotidian tasks and provides us with the much needed bridge between the disciplines of the traditional liberal arts and those of the behavioral sciences - a bridge that in turn facilitates a greater understanding of the second language acquisition process.' - Kenneth W Mildenberger Award Committee
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