Applied Linguistics: An Overview

A colorful, visual guide to the linguistics every English teacher needs, from the history of English and the Great Vowel Shift to dialects, pragmatics and language acquisition. Built for future teachers, with quick reviews and activities.

Carol Russell

A course book that explains why English teachers need linguistics and walks through each branch of the field with practical tasks. Includes a glossary of key terms and a visual map of the branches of linguistics.

Saiful Akmal, Rahmat Yusny and Risdaneva

A guide to English grammar and language written for ESL teachers. It explains how English really works, from sounds and words to clauses and discourse, and how to use that knowledge in the classroom.

Brett Reynolds

A complete guide to corpus linguistics, from research design and data extraction to statistical evaluation. Case studies on collocations, morphology, grammar and metaphor show the methods at work.

Anatol Stefanowitsch

An introduction to computational linguistics with no programming required. It explains how spell checkers, search engines, machine translation and dialog systems work, and what linguistics has to do with them.

Lelia Glass, Markus Dickinson, Chris Brew and Detmar Meurers