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A recording of all of the dialogues will be available on the internet Whys & Therefores aids the reader to arrive at generalizations for the shape of the English language: words, grammar, meaning, sound and spelling. The format adopted throughout is that of a light-hearted ongoing Socratic dialogue between a mentor and a pupil. The intended effects of such activity are: awareness of what it means to 'know' a language; reliance upon native-language intuition; discovery of what one didn't know that one already 'knows' about the language; use of ungrammaticality as an investigative tool; healthy questioning of received facts about language from so-called experts; and usefulness of language play. Whys & Therefores can be read as a book,dipped into at random, expanded upon, even acted out. The language phenomena treated therein are indexed and tabbed to the dialogues where they are discussed, making Whys & Therefores a valuable source of reference. Whys & Therefores is intended as an entertaining yet serious do-it-yourself book about aspects of English language form and meaning. However, it will also prove useful to schools as classroom material to be further exploited by the instructor in free-range dialogue form, and to institutions offering teacher training in rational-based instructional procedures for English language education in the schools.

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Book category Books in English Language Language teaching & learning (other than ELT) Language teaching & learning material & coursework

• Full title: Whys and Therefores
• Author: William Rutherford
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280
• EAN: 9781845536510
• ISBN: 1845536517
• ID: 04450091
• Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
• Weight: 588 g
• Dimensions: 190 × 247 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 24. November 2011

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