Language and language learning: An introduction

Arthur van Essen --- as seen by another professional, the late W. R. Lee OBE MA Phd

Part One History of Linguistics

Linguistics, historicism and the humanities

The man who knew too much. J. M. Hoogvliet as a teacher and theoretician of language

Applied linguistics, old and new

Karl Buhler's child psychology: Methodological preliminaries

Part Two Essays

An exploration of the art and science debate in language education

Phonology, lexical semantics and syntax in aphasia and natural language acquisition in adulthood

Language teaching as political action

How's this for fun? The role of humour in the ELT classroom and ELT teaching materials

Identity and differentiation of the lexicon through language corpora

ESP - a variety of English and/or a type of language course?

Categorising in discourse: The case of Dutch ander

SVOV in German and Dutch. Interface between discourse prominence and subject identification as a parsing requirement

Part Three Studies

Literacy in Dutch of poorly schooled adult immigrants from the Netherlands Antilles

Medical discourse as professional and institutional action: Challenges to teaching and researching languages for special purposes

Content- and language-integrated learning, culture of education and learning theories

Content-based language teaching: Language in the mathematics classroom

Theoretical approaches to second-language learner varieties

The role of form in language learning

A methodology for evaluating the effectiveness of vocabulary treatments

The place of knowledge about language in the mother tongue and foreign language curriculum

Part Four Reports

Towards an alphabetical grammar of Modern Israeli Hebrew

The use of word frequency data in the teaching of English as an alternative/additional language: Reflections on recent EET-list experience and experiments

Helping advanced EFL learners improve their written English through self-correction tasks

A web-based foreign-language assistant

Subject didactics as the science of the foreign language teaching profession