TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thornbury, Scott
TI  - About language: : tasks for teachers of English 
SN  - 9781107667198
AV  - 428.0071 T34a c2017 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Cambridge, UK
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - English language
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - Foreign speakers
KW  - English teachers
KW  - Training of
N1  - Includes bibliography and index
N2  - Teachers of English need to have a good prductive command of the language. However, this alone is ont enough; they also need to know how the language works. About Language Second edition asks: `What is it that a teacher needs to know about English in order to teach it effectively?` The book develops teachers` language awareness through a wide range of tasks, which involve them in analysing English to discover its underlying systems. This second edition has been fully revised and updated incorporating recent developments in language description, whilst keeping the  organisation and structure of the successful first edition. It consists of 31 units, with new material focusing on varieties of English, models of grammar, spoken grammar, and phraseology. Each unit contains up to 12 tasks and the language is illustrated with authentic sources, from corpora and websites to novels and newspapers
ER  -