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Book: Teaching Linguistics

Chapter: The value of linguistics to the ESL/EFL classroom practitioner

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.20339

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The purpose of this chapter is to make the case for classroom teachers of ESL/EFL to study linguistics. The main argument is to provide two examples of how a knowledge of linguistics should inform and can beneļ¬t the classroom teacher. I will also discuss what happens when teachers have not studied linguistics. The arguments put forward below and the examples used, grow out of 45 years of classroom ESL/EFL teaching. 

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