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Chapter 1 of Essential Linguistics by David Freeman and Yvonne Freeman. He can then quite effortlessly make use of an intricate structure of specific rules and guiding principles to convey his thoughts and feelings to others, arousing in them novel ideas and subtle perceptions and judgments” (Freeman & Freeman, 2004). Essential Linguistics: What You Need to Know to Teach Reading, ESL, Spelling, Phonics, and Grammar by David E. Read online, or download in secure PDF format.

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David E. Freeman and Yvonne S. Freeman. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2004. Pp. xvi + 263. ■This book is a user-friendly guide to linguistic theory with practical teaching applications. Teachers can use this foundation to help their first (L1) or second language (L2) students learn to read and write in English. As the students develop this literacy, they become involved in linguistic inquiry to investigate how language works. The authors contend that understanding basic linguistics helps teachers make reasoned pedagogical decisions regarding the development of their students’ language proficiency. Chapter 1 traces the history of the study of first language acquisition (FLA) from behaviorism to cognitive science and then looks at the contributions of developmental psychology, sociology, anthropology, education, and linguistics (especially Chomsky’s language theory of generative grammar) to current views on the development of FLA. Chapter 2 investigates second language acquisition (SLA), including written language acquisition, and concludes that second and written languages can be acquired, that is, they do not have to be learned. Chapter 3 describes English phonology, and chapter 4 proposes phonological applications for teaching reading and teaching L2, including allophonic variation, dialect differences, and language differences. Chapter 5 first deals with the history

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Published: Jun 1, 2005