Learner English: A Teacher's Guide to Interference and Other Problems

by Swan, Michael; Smith, Bernard;

• ISBN13: 9780521779395
• ISBN10: 0521779391
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-05-14
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This updated edition is a practical reference guide which compares the relevant features of a student's own language with English, helping teachers to predict and understand the problems their students have. Learner English has chapters focusing on major problems of pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary and other errors as well as new chapters covering Korean, Malay/Indonesian and Polish language backgrounds.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	vii
Introduction	ix
Note for teachers of American English	xii
List of phonetic symbols	xiv
Acknowledgements	xvi
Dutch speakers	1	(20)
Speakers of Scandinavian languages	21	(16)
German speakers	37	(15)
French speakers	52	(21)
Italian speakers	73	(17)
Speakers of Spanish and Catalan	90	(23)
Portuguese speakers	113	(16)
Greek speakers	129	(16)
Russian speakers	145	(17)
Polish speakers	162	(17)
Farsi speakers	179	(16)
Arabic speakers	195	(19)
Turkish speakers	214	(13)
Speakers of South Asian languages	227	(17)
Speakers of Dravidian languages	244	(7)
Speakers of West African languages	251	(9)
Swahili speakers	260	(19)
Malay/Indonesian speakers	279	(17)
Japanese speakers	296	(14)
Chinese speakers	310	(15)
Korean speakers	325	(18)
Thai speakers	343
The cassette and CD	357