Английский язык. Ч. 4. Гималетдинова Г.К - 22 стр.

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    Упражнение 13. Составьте диалоги, выражая а) пожелания, о том, что-
бы вы хотели иметь сейчас или в будущем; б) сожаления о том, чего у вас
не было в детстве.

                                      ТЕКСТ Б
                        Linguistics and Language Teaching
      The language teacher’s aim in regard to a language is not the same as that of a
descriptive linguist. The teacher is not simply concerned with its systematic and ex-
haustive description and analysis, but with facilitating the acquisition of a language
other than their mother tongue by other people with the greatest ease and thorough-
ness. This both restricts the number of languages he is primarily concerned with, and
determines the type of presentation he requires. Linguists describe and analyse
many languages that will, for economic and practical reasons, never be taught to
others. They may even be on the verge of extinction; indeed, books, texts, or even
languages themselves, which are utterly irrelevant to the teacher, may make it of es-
pecial interest to the general linguist. But it is to be hoped and believed that the tech-
niques and methods of scientific linguistics, at every level of language analysis, will
aid and improve the work of the language teacher.
      Linguistic science as one knows it today has been stimulated and nourished all
the time by the work of language teachers. They, and others, who for purely practical
purposes have mastered foreign languages, have provided linguists with a great deal
of their material, and the problems and difficulties they encountered stimulated lin-
guistic research along fruitful lines. The science of language owes much to the work
of people who would never claim for themselves the title of general linguists. But it
may be believed that the teacher, who understands and can make use of the meth-
ods of scientific linguistics will find the task of presenting a language to his students
very much lightened and facilitated. In particular the intuitive feeling for correctness in
a language on which teachers have often relied as a fruit of their long experience will
be replaced by an objective and publicly communicable knowledge of its elements
and structures, which can be systematically imparted to others.
      Long ago different events in the world started attracting considerable atten-
tion to the needs and advantages of close contacts between linguists and teach-
ers of languages. For example, sudden requirements for numbers of persons to
be rapidly trained in particular aspects and styles of languages spoken in some
areas in the Second World War made a profound and progressive impact on lin-
guistic work in Great Britain and America. The results of such work, produced un-
der the pressures of an emergency for which little preparation had been made,
have contributed greatly to the programmes of language teaching, and particularly
to the teaching of English in many parts of the world today. Many linguists devote
much of their time to the study and development of teaching methods and the im-
provement of teaching materials in the service of English as a foreign language.
                                         Словарь
aim – цель                                       to facilitate the acquisition of a language –
in regard to a language – относительно               способствовать овладению языком
    языка                                        facilitate – облегчать, помогать
descriptive – описательный                       the greatest ease – большая легкость
simply – просто                                  thoroughness – полнота, тщательность
exhaustive – исчерпывающий                       to restrict – ограничивать