Sárosdy Judit, Farczádi Bencze Tamás, Poór Zoltán, Vadnay Marianna. Applied Linguistics I for BA Students in English

Bölcsész Konzorcium. 2006. — 191 pages. — ISBN: 963-9704-94-6The structure of the present first volume of Applied Linguistics for BA students follows the traditional model of a book onmethodology. Having given the historical background of language teaching methods in the first two chapters the authors follow the general model of a book on Language Pedagogy taken all the principles of Communicative Approach into consideration. According to Jenő Bárdos (2000) the basic model of language teaching methodologies consists of the following five parts: WHO teachesWHOM, WHAT and HOW, THROUGH WHAT TEACHING AIDS. In chapter 3 the participants of learning process are in focus. Readers can learn about various teacher’s roles and teaching styles in the first part. It answers the question WHO. Its second part treats different learner types and learning styles to reflect on question WHOM. Having treated classroom management problems we inform our students about the nature of language teaching by presenting a language teaching model consisting of input and output stages. According to the model mentioned above developing students’ receptive and productive skills are in focus. Still remaining with the question WHAT the book gives useful pieces of information about the problems of presenting and practising vocabulary, grammatical structures and developing students’ pronunciation. So as to follow the model of communicative language teaching we want to arouse students’ cultural awareness as well. To achieve our aims we include a chapter on culture
into this part. Following Professor Bárdos’s model the question HOW is to be answered in chapters on planning, giving feedback and evaluation. The fifth element of the model – ‘THROUGH WHICH’ – is in focus in chapters on visual, audio-visual and digital aids, and in the one focusing on course-book evaluation.