VIEW ON‘LINGUISTICS IN LANGUAGE TEACHING’

D. A. Wilkins Linguistics in Language TeachingLondon Melbourne Auckland 1972 This book,Linguistics in Language Teaching,is weitten essentially for the teachers offoreign languages. It tries to work out the relationship between linguistics and languageteaching and to snow how knowledge of linguistics does benefit teachingmethodology. Wilkins gives a balanced view of the field of linguistics. Parts of the discussionowe much to early structuralism, some to later developments in transformational geneativelingustics and others to Hallidanyan lingusitics, He explains these linguistic points just tosuit his purpose: what value does linguistics have for language teaching? Many examples arefrom the teaching of English. This reflects the author’s own interests and experience. Fromthis book. Wilkins is clearly a practising teacher of heart, and not just a linguist.