Language Policy and Language Education in Emerging Nations: Focus on Slovenia and Croatia with Contributions from Britain, Austria, Spain, and Italy

It has long been an assumption in the field of English as a foreign language that those who speak the language as natives pronounce the way it should be taught. Most influential figures in the field have been outsiders, and the subject has accordingly not been really defined as the teaching of English as a foreign language, but as the teaching of English to foreigners: quite a different thing. This book discusses the designing of programs for learning which will take the different kinds of foreign-ness into account.

Table of Contents:
Preface, H.G. Widdowson PART I. KNOWLEDGE, CULTURE, AND CONTEXT Applied Linguistics, Pragmatics, and Language Pedagogy, Barbara Seidlhofer and H.G. Widdowson The Intercultural Component in Teaching English as a Foreign Language, Meta Grosman The Troubles': A Project in British Cultural Studies, Tina Mahkota Context, Knowledge, and Teaching Translation, Mirjana Bonacic Literature as Comparative Discourse: Parallel Readings in Two Languages, Uros Mozetic Parallel Texts and Parallel Worlds: Assessing Validity in Interpretation and Translation through Descriptive Text Corpora, Rosanna Masiola Rosini The Genesis and Development of Illustration in the English Dictionary, Sabine Langridge PART II. FACTORS IN DESCRIPTION, INSTRUCTION, AND ASSESSMENT Large Corpus Research and Foreign Language Teaching, John McHardy Sinclair Introducing English into Croatian Primary Schools, Mirjana Vilke The Role of the Native Language in Teaching English as a Foreign Language, Janez Skela The Role of Feedback in Teaching and Learning English as a Foreign Language, Gertraud Havranek Affect, Attitude, and Motivation in Learning English as a Foreign Language, Jelena Mihaljevic Djigunovic Toward an Interlingual Collocational Dictionary of English and Slovene, Dusan Gabrovsek Anglicisms in Contemporary Slovene and Their Lexicographic Treatment, Eva Sicherl. Theory and Practice in Communicative Grammar: A Guide for Teachers, David Newby Relating Grammar to Discourse: Can Grammar Classes Be Like Poetry Classes, Irena Kovacic Teaching Aspect to Slovene Learners of English: Discourse in Context, Silvana Orel Using Phonetic Transcription at the University Level, Rastislav Sustarcic Models of Intonation for the University Teacher of English, Smiljana Komar Testing Reading in Theory and Practice, Sasa Benulic PART III. ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES How Can We Teach a Foreign Language for Specific Purposes? Wilfried Wieden ESP Textbooks: Who Should Produce Them and How? Melita Djuric Oral Testing in English for Specific Purposes, Zeljka Radelic Writing Effective Abstracts for International Readers, Bernarda Kosel English Teacher, Linguist, and Aviation Specialist in Radiotelephony Communication Programs, Alenka H. Kukovec Developing Style: A Pilot Training Program, John Fox Using Case Reports in Teaching Medical English, Maria Soledad Garcia Matinez and Lourdes Divasson Cilveti PART IV. GEOPOLITICS AND LANGUAGE Designing Language Programs in Post-Colonial Contexts: The Outlook in Slovenia, Robert de Beaugrande Author Index Subject Index

About the Author :
Beaugrande /f Robert META GROSMAN is Professor of English and American literature at the University of Ljubljana. /e She has written extensively on literature, reader-response criticism, reception of American and English literature in intercultural contexts, teaching of literature, literary theory, and literary translation. BABBARA SEIDLHOFER is Assistant Professor of Literature at the Institute for English and American literature at the University of Vienna.