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Overview"This book presents a large-scale corpus-driven study of progressives in 'real' English and 'school' English, combining an analysis of general linguistic interest with a pedagogically motivated one. A systematic comparative analysis of more than 10,000 progressive forms taken from the largest existing corpora of spoken British English and from a small corpus of EFL textbook texts highlights numerous differences between actual language use and textbook language concerning the distribution of progressives, their preferred contexts, favoured functions, and typical lexical-grammatical patterns. On the basis of these differences, a number of pedagogical implications are derived, the integration of which then leads to a first draft of an innovative concept of teaching progressives - a concept which responds to three key criteria in pedagogical description: typicality, authenticity, and communicative utility. The analysis also demonstrates that many existing accounts of the progressive are inappropriate in several respects and that not enough attention is being paid to lexical-grammatical relations.! Winner of the ""Wissenschaftspreis Hannover 2006"" for outstanding research monographs !" Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ute Römer-Barron (University of Hanover) , Emery J Hyslop-MargisonPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co Imprint: John Benjamins Publishing Co Volume: 18 Weight: 0.770kg ISBN: 9789027222893ISBN 10: 9027222894 Pages: 342 Publication Date: 18 August 2005 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of Contents1. Acknowledgements, pxiii; 2. 1. Introduction: A need to take stock of progressives, p1-6; 3. 2. The theoretical basis of the study: Corpora, contexts, didactics, p7-18; 4. 3. Progressives in theoretical studies and grammars of English, p19-36; 5. 4. Progressives in spoken British English, p37-170; 6. 5. Progressive teaching(?): Progressives in the German EFL classroom, p171-242; 7. 6. Progressives in real spoken English and in school English: A comparison, p243-273; 8. 7. Pedagogical implications: True facts, textbooks, teaching, p275-291; 9. 8. Conclusions: Corpus, practice, theory, p293-298; 10. Notes, p299-307; 11. References, p309-324; 12. Index, p325-327ReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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