Language Play, Language Learning by Guy Cook

Language Play, Language Learning by Guy Cook

This book has two related purposes. The first is to demonstrate the extent and importance of language play in human life; the second is to draw out the implications for applied linguistics and language teaching. Language play should not be thought of as a trivial or peripheral activity, but as central to human thought and culture, to learning, creativity, and intellectual enquiry. It fulfils a major function of language, underpinning the human capacity to adapt: as individuals, as societies, and as a species.

'This far-ranging study demonstrates immense erudition in its sweep of scientific, cultural, and pedagogical theory, and points the way to linking opposing notions of language acquisitionCook's work moves the profession away from a language learning centred on myopically practical, quotidian tasks and provides us with the much needed bridge between the disciplines of the traditional liberal arts and those of the behavioral sciences - a bridge that in turn facilitates a greater understanding of the second language acquisition process.' * Kenneth W Mildenberger Award Committee *

Guy Cook is Professor of Applied Linguistics at The Open University, UK.

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ISBN 13	9780194421539
ISBN 10	0194421538
Title	Language Play, Language Learning
Author	Guy Cook
Series	Oxford Applied Linguistics
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	2000-02-03
Number of pages	242
Prizes	Winner of Winner of the Kenneth W Mildenberger Prize Shortlisted for the Ben Warren Prize.
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