Christopher Brumfit
Biographic Data
| ID | 183862 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Brumfit |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Brumfit |
| SIGNATURE | BRUMFIT C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southampton |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 25 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A European Perspective on Language as Liminality
The quotations above illustrate the argument of the first part of my chapter. The chapter as a whole is going to take a now widely accepted position, to modify it by referring to the diversity within languages as well as across languages, and, in the second part, to consider its implications for language policies in Europe. However, we should not progress without noting the extensions of the concept ‘liminal’ implied by the Latin definitions. No…
Language study in higher education and the development of criticality 1
This article explores the development of criticality in Modern Languages graduates in the UK. It is based on a larger research project investigating the development of criticality in (initially) two academic disciplines through the detailed analysis of a large corpus of qualitative data. This includes student interviews, teacher interviews, classroom observation, written and oral work produced by students, documentation produced for courses, and …
Applied linguistics in 2004
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Language and Higher Education
For higher education, two recent changes in world language practices are crucial: the emergence of English as the default language of international communication, and the technology of the Internet. The first appears to have contributed to problems of motivation for English-speaking learners of foreign languages. Information is provided about responses in England to a crisis in recruitment that is shared by other English-speaking countries, and s…
The Challenge of the 21st-Century Agenda for Foreign LanguageLearning in England’s Universities
This article considers the political pressures for increased foreign language learningin England at the beginning of the 21st century, and the implications these havefor foreign language learning in higher education. I argue, from a Bourdieusianperspective, that restricted access to foreign language learning sustains socialhierarchies. By focusing on functional use, to the exclusion of symbolic value, andthanks to the serendipitous rise of Englis…
Response to Rajagopalan
How applied linguistics is the same as any other science
This paper comments on Rampton's criticisms of a position characterised by him as “Brumfit/Widdowson”. Applied linguistics is examined as a research project analogous to other “disciplines” and is shown to share a range of characteristics with them. Boundaries and models are ways of imposing metaphorical order on experiental chaos and are provisional, being discarded when their usefulness is exhausted. The need for cross‐disciplinary perspectives…
Knowledge about Language’
This paper provides an overview of a project funded by ESRC from 1991‐1993 within the framework of the ‘Quality of Teaching and Learning’ initiative, titled ‘ “Knowledge about Language”, Language Learning and the National Curriculum’. The term ‘Knowledge about Language’ (KAL) has become current in curriculum debates since the late 1980s as a new title for an old concern: that pupils learning languages in formal settings should acquire some explic…
The Braid of Literature
As parent, reading partner, and social science observer, Shelby Wolf documented countless moments during the preschool and early grade-school years of her two daughters. The Braid of Literature interweaves her careful observations and analysis with Shirley Brice Heath's insightful commentary, drawing on current research in anthropology, linguistics, and cognitive psychology. Together, they have produced an unusual study of two young children who …
Problems in Defining Instructional Methodologies
Research in applied linguistics relevant to language teaching
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Research in applied linguistics relevant to language teaching
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Research in applied linguistics relevant to language teaching
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Research in applied linguistics relevant to language teaching
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Applied Linguistics and Communicative Language Teaching
Some linguists may well feel that it is inappropriate to devote an entire issue of the Annual Review of Applied Linguistics to a movement exclusively within language teaching. It would certainly be inaccurate to see language teaching as simply an application of linguistics, and some parts of this issue of ARAL will necessarily survey material that is not exclusively applied linguistics. Nonetheless, one particular tradition of applied linguistics…
Conclusion
The communicative approach to language teaching
Literacy, Language and Learning
The Functional-Notional Approach
Efl and English Literature
II Notional Syllabuses Revisited
Journal Article II Notional Syllabuses Revisited: A Response Get access C. J. BRUMFIT C. J. BRUMFIT University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Applied Linguistics, Volume II, Issue 1, Spring 1981, Pages 90–92, https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/II.1.90 Published: 01 March 1981
Teaching languages
Reading skills and the study of literature in a foreign language
Being Interdisciplinary--Some Problems Facing Applied Linguistics
Journal Article BEING INTERDISCIPLINARY—SOME PROBLEMS FACING APPLIED LINGUISTICS Get access C. J. BRUMFIT C. J. BRUMFIT University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Applied Linguistics, Volume I, Issue 2, Summer 1980, Pages 158–164, https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/I.2.158 Published: 01 July 1980
Notional syllabuses—A reassessment
The communicative approach to language teaching
How applied linguistics is the same as any other science
This paper comments on Rampton's criticisms of a position characterised by him as “Brumfit/Widdowson”. Applied linguistics is examined as a research project analogous to other “disciplines” and is shown to share a range of characteristics with them. Boundaries and models are ways of imposing metaphorical order on experiental chaos and are provisional, being discarded when their usefulness is exhausted. The need for cross‐disciplinary perspectives…
Notional syllabuses—A reassessment
Language study in higher education and the development of criticality 1
This article explores the development of criticality in Modern Languages graduates in the UK. It is based on a larger research project investigating the development of criticality in (initially) two academic disciplines through the detailed analysis of a large corpus of qualitative data. This includes student interviews, teacher interviews, classroom observation, written and oral work produced by students, documentation produced for courses, and …
Language and Higher Education
For higher education, two recent changes in world language practices are crucial: the emergence of English as the default language of international communication, and the technology of the Internet. The first appears to have contributed to problems of motivation for English-speaking learners of foreign languages. Information is provided about responses in England to a crisis in recruitment that is shared by other English-speaking countries, and s…
Teaching languages
Reading skills and the study of literature in a foreign language
The Challenge of the 21st-Century Agenda for Foreign LanguageLearning in England’s Universities
This article considers the political pressures for increased foreign language learningin England at the beginning of the 21st century, and the implications these havefor foreign language learning in higher education. I argue, from a Bourdieusianperspective, that restricted access to foreign language learning sustains socialhierarchies. By focusing on functional use, to the exclusion of symbolic value, andthanks to the serendipitous rise of Englis…
Research in applied linguistics relevant to language teaching
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Notional syllabuses—A reassessment
Being Interdisciplinary--Some Problems Facing Applied Linguistics
Journal Article BEING INTERDISCIPLINARY—SOME PROBLEMS FACING APPLIED LINGUISTICS Get access C. J. BRUMFIT C. J. BRUMFIT University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Applied Linguistics, Volume I, Issue 2, Summer 1980, Pages 158–164, https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/I.2.158 Published: 01 July 1980
II Notional Syllabuses Revisited
Journal Article II Notional Syllabuses Revisited: A Response Get access C. J. BRUMFIT C. J. BRUMFIT University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Applied Linguistics, Volume II, Issue 1, Spring 1981, Pages 90–92, https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/II.1.90 Published: 01 March 1981
Teaching languages
Reading skills and the study of literature in a foreign language
Efl and English Literature
The Functional-Notional Approach
Literacy, Language and Learning
Applied Linguistics and Communicative Language Teaching
Some linguists may well feel that it is inappropriate to devote an entire issue of the Annual Review of Applied Linguistics to a movement exclusively within language teaching. It would certainly be inaccurate to see language teaching as simply an application of linguistics, and some parts of this issue of ARAL will necessarily survey material that is not exclusively applied linguistics. Nonetheless, one particular tradition of applied linguistics…
Conclusion
The communicative approach to language teaching
Research in applied linguistics relevant to language teaching
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Research in applied linguistics relevant to language teaching
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Research in applied linguistics relevant to language teaching
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Problems in Defining Instructional Methodologies
Research in applied linguistics relevant to language teaching
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Braid of Literature
As parent, reading partner, and social science observer, Shelby Wolf documented countless moments during the preschool and early grade-school years of her two daughters. The Braid of Literature interweaves her careful observations and analysis with Shirley Brice Heath's insightful commentary, drawing on current research in anthropology, linguistics, and cognitive psychology. Together, they have produced an unusual study of two young children who …
Knowledge about Language’
This paper provides an overview of a project funded by ESRC from 1991‐1993 within the framework of the ‘Quality of Teaching and Learning’ initiative, titled ‘ “Knowledge about Language”, Language Learning and the National Curriculum’. The term ‘Knowledge about Language’ (KAL) has become current in curriculum debates since the late 1980s as a new title for an old concern: that pupils learning languages in formal settings should acquire some explic…
How applied linguistics is the same as any other science
This paper comments on Rampton's criticisms of a position characterised by him as “Brumfit/Widdowson”. Applied linguistics is examined as a research project analogous to other “disciplines” and is shown to share a range of characteristics with them. Boundaries and models are ways of imposing metaphorical order on experiental chaos and are provisional, being discarded when their usefulness is exhausted. The need for cross‐disciplinary perspectives…
Response to Rajagopalan
Applied linguistics in 2004
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Language and Higher Education
For higher education, two recent changes in world language practices are crucial: the emergence of English as the default language of international communication, and the technology of the Internet. The first appears to have contributed to problems of motivation for English-speaking learners of foreign languages. Information is provided about responses in England to a crisis in recruitment that is shared by other English-speaking countries, and s…
The Challenge of the 21st-Century Agenda for Foreign LanguageLearning in England’s Universities
This article considers the political pressures for increased foreign language learningin England at the beginning of the 21st century, and the implications these havefor foreign language learning in higher education. I argue, from a Bourdieusianperspective, that restricted access to foreign language learning sustains socialhierarchies. By focusing on functional use, to the exclusion of symbolic value, andthanks to the serendipitous rise of Englis…
Language study in higher education and the development of criticality 1
This article explores the development of criticality in Modern Languages graduates in the UK. It is based on a larger research project investigating the development of criticality in (initially) two academic disciplines through the detailed analysis of a large corpus of qualitative data. This includes student interviews, teacher interviews, classroom observation, written and oral work produced by students, documentation produced for courses, and …
A European Perspective on Language as Liminality
The quotations above illustrate the argument of the first part of my chapter. The chapter as a whole is going to take a now widely accepted position, to modify it by referring to the diversity within languages as well as across languages, and, in the second part, to consider its implications for language policies in Europe. However, we should not progress without noting the extensions of the concept ‘liminal’ implied by the Latin definitions. No…
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