Encyclopedia of Language and Education Knowledge About Language

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LANGUAGE AND EDUCATION This is one of eight volumes of the Encyclopedia of Language and Educa­ tion published by Kluwer Academic. The publication of this work signals the maturity of the field of 'language and education' as an internationa

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Encyclopedia of Language and Education VOLUME 6: KNOWLEDGE ABOUT LANGUAGE

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Encyclopedia of Language and Education Volume 6

KNOWLEDGE ABOUT LANGUAGE Edited by

LEOVANLIER Monterey Institute of International Studies Monterey, California USA and

DAVID CORSON The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education University of Toronto Canada

SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Knowledge about language I edlted by Leo van Ller and Davld Corson. p. c •. -- (Encyclopedla of language and educatlon : v. 6) Includes blbl10graphlcal references and lndex. ISBN 978-0-7923-4933-4 ISBN 978-94-011-4533-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-011-4533-6

paper) 1. Language awareness. 2. Language acqulsltlon. 3. Language and languages--Study and teachlng. 4. Language teachers--Tralnlng of. 1. Van Ller, Leo. II. Corson, Davld. III. Serles. P120.L34K59 1997 407--dc21 97-30204

ISBN 978-0-7923-4933-4

Cover picture:The Tower ojBaby/on, Pieter Bruegel the Elder Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam

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TABLE OF CONTENTS VOLUME 6: KNOWLEDGE ABOUT LANGUAGE

General Editor's Introduction

vii

Introduction

xi

Section 1: Historical and Theoretical Issues 1.

Language Awareness and Knowledge About Language: An Overview

2.

Pedagogical Grammar: From Prescriptive to Descriptive

1

Arthur van Essen

3.

John Walmsley

The History of Language Awareness in the UK

11 21

B. Gillian Donmall-Hicks

4.

The Theory and Practice of Argument in Education

31

Patrick J.M. Costello

Section 2: Knowledge About Language and the Language Learner 5.

Metalinguistic Development in First Language Acquisition

43

Jean Emile Gombert

6.

Phonological Awareness and Learning to Read

53

Tom Nicholson

7.

Morphological Awareness and the Second Language Learner

63

Dominiek Sandra

8.

Language Awareness and Learning Styles

73

Sabine Jones

Section 3: Knowledge About Language, the Curriculum, and the Classroom 9.

Whole Language: The Whole Story

87

Kenneth S. Goodman

10. Language Awareness at the International High School

99

Anthony J. DeFazio

11. Explicit Knowledge and Second Language Pedagogy Rod Ellis

L. van Lier and D. Corson (eds), Encyclopedia of Language and Education, Volume 6: Knowledge about Language, v-vi.

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12. Language Awareness and Translation 13. 14. 15.

Patrick Zabalbeascoa Awareness and Language Switch in Second-Foreign Language Learning Contexts Sofia Papaefthymiou-Lytra Literacy and Genre Aviva Freedman and Paul Richardson Esperanto and Language Awareness Mark Fettes

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