Linguistics across cultures; applied linguistics for language teachers

Abstract

This book presents a fairly new feild of applied linguistics and the analysis of culture, namely the comparision of any two languages and cultures to discover and describle the problems that the spaekers of the languages will have in learning the other. The results of such comparisions have proved of fundametal value for the preparation of teaching meterials, tests, and language learning experiments. Foreign languge teachers who understand this field will acquire insights and tools for evaluating the language and culture content of textbooks and tests, supplementing the meterials of use, preparing new new materials and tests, and diagnosing student difficulties accurately.