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Peer reviewedTinberg, Howard B. – College Composition and Communication, 1989
Recommends that students conduct ethnographic studies of language in their own communities. Emphasizes that the focus ought to be conventions of speaking and writing, as well as conventions that govern the conduct, the "texts," of a culture. (RAE)
Descriptors: Community Study, Cultural Differences, Discourse Communities, Ethnography
Download full textRutherford, William E. – 1973
Most of what has been taught in the language classroom for a long while has been generally a reflection of the particular concept of language popular among linguistics at the time, but recently this trend has begun to break down. Recent texts are starting to be organized according to considerations besides linguistic criteria, for example,…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Communication (Thought Transfer), English (Second Language), Language Instruction
