English Grammar A University Course (2nd Edition) free download online
Title: English Grammar A University Course (2nd Edition) Author(s): Angela Downing Pages: 640 Publisher: Routledge Publication date: 2006 Language: English Format: PDF ISBN-10: 0415287871 ISBN-13: Description: This book has been written primarily for undergraduate and graduate students of English
as a foreign or second language. It is also addressed to tutors and others interested
in applying a broadly functional approach to language teaching in higher education. It
assumes an intermediate standard of knowledge and practical handling of the language
and, from this point of departure, seeks to fulfil the following aims:
1 to further students knowledge of English through exploration and analysis;
2 to help students acquire a global vision of English, rather than concentrate on
unrelated areas;
3 to see a grammar as providing a means of understanding the relation of form
to meaning, and meaning to function, in context;
4 to provide a basic terminology which, within this framework, will enable students
to make these relationships explicit.
While not pretending to be exhaustive, which would be impossible, its wide coverage
and functional approach have been found appropriate not only in first-degree courses
but also in postgraduate courses and as a background resource for courses, publications
and work on translation, stylistics, reading projects and discourse studies.
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