Linguistics for English Teaching
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       We envisaged this book as a main reference for English language teachers. 
       Like many may have thought that this book laid out in both theory and 
       practical terms why English language teachers should study linguistics for 
       their future professional teaching career. This book lays out in theoretical 
       terms why many of our most common views about the study on linguistics 
       are fundamentally important. This book equips the theoretical importance 
       with practical assignments and authentic tasks. These are the times that 
       try language teacher’s souls on linguistics, and, for that reason, this book 
       advocates its own petite contribution in knowledge-development.
       This book has been developed from the Introduction to Linguistics subject 
       and its syllabus design which we have been teaching to our students at the 
       English Language Education, Faculty of Education and Teacher Training, 
       UIN Ar-Raniry Banda Aceh, Indonesia for a couple of years. Providing the 
       students with most fundamental topics and the latest up to date exercises of 
       modern linguistics is the goal of this book. It also includes a glossary of the 
       most central terminologies which students, as a linguistic teacher wannabe, 
       have to know. They can use it not only during the course but also in other 
       linguistics-related subjects. We have written this book in a way that does all 
       concepts will be explained systematically assisted with actual exercises. By 
       doing so, we try to make a rather sophisticated linguistics topics as simple 
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       to understand as possible.  This book is aimed at giving students a broad 
       outline how introduction to linguistics for English Language Teaching in 
       classroom situation looks like. It will outline students to important topics 
       in the field, and bring into the light the key issues in each chapter. The book 
       is written for university level student, but explained in accessible language 
       of presentation. After having introduced the pre-content and basic generic 
       concepts on the study of human language in the outset of the book, students 
       will be able to move on to wider indispensable topics in linguistics. 
       As linguistics is known as a big field of study, and of course, no size fits 
       all, we believe that no one is the expert of every linguistics topic. To ensure 
       that chapters contain authoritative elements on its field, most chapters are 
       interchangeably revised by the three of us as team teaching, as well as team 
       authors in linguistics. That is why the style of writing will be somewhat 
       unique because it is written by three different persons. It is hoped that this 
       will be quite exciting to read. This book has been a team effort contributing 
       their specific academic expertise. Writing complex and fundamental topics 
       with simple and understandable language is not as easy as it looks. I owe 
       the team authors of this book my highest appreciation and wish to thank 
       them for working tirelessly to ensure that they can meet the given deadline 
       to publish this manuscript on time. This book is expected to be a useful 
       teaching material and I expect you to feel the same way after reading it
       Dr. T. Zulfikar. S.Ag. M.Ed
       Head of Dept. of English Language Education
       Ar-Raniry State Islamic University, Banda Aceh 
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                                                        Linguistics for English Teaching
               TABLE OF CONTENTS
               PREFACE i
               INTRODUCTION 1
                   A. Objectives                                                   2
                   B. Scope of This Book                                           3
               LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS                                            4
                   A. What is Language?                                            4
                   B. Origins of Language                                          5
                   C. Distinctive Features of Human Language                       7
                   D. What is Linguistics?                                         9
                   E. Language Branches                                           10
                   F. Perspectives in Linguistics                                 12
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