Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: Language and language learning: An introduction -- Arthur van Essen - as seen by another professional, -- the late W. R. Lee OBE MA PHD -- List of Arthur van Essen's publications -- List of Contributors -- Part One History of Linguistics -- 1. Linguistics, historicism and the humanities -- Jan Koster -- 2. The man who knew too much. -- J. M. Hoogvliet as a teacher and theoretician of language -- Jan Noordegraaf -- 3. Applied linguistics, old and new -- Bondi Sciarone -- 4. Karl Biihler's child psychology: Methodological preliminaries -- Frank Vonk -- Part Two Essays -- 5. An exploration of the art and science debate in language education -- David Block -- 6. Phonology, lexical semantics and syntax in aphasia -- and natural language acquisition in adulthood -- Roelien Bastiaanse -- 7. Language teaching as political action -- Michael Byram -- 8. How's this for fun? The role of humour in the ELT classroom -- and ELT teaching materials -- Peter Medgyes -- 9. Identity and differentiation of the lexicon -- through language corpora -- Natalia Gvishiani -- 10. ESP - a variety of English and/or a type of language course? -- Uta Thiirmer -- 11. Categorising in discourse: The case of Dutch ander -- Titus Ensink and Harrie Mazeland -- 12. SVOV in German and Dutch. Interface between -- discourse prominence and subject identification -- as a parsing requirement -- Werner Abraham -- Part Three Studies -- 13. Literacy in Dutch of poorly schooled adult immigrants -- from the Netherlands Antilles -- Jan Berenst -- 14. Medical discourse as professional and institutional action: -- Challenges to teaching and researching languages -- for special purposes -- Christopher N. Candlin -- 15. Content- and language-integrated learning, -- culture of education and learning theories -- Piet Van de Craen -- 16. Content-based language teaching: -- Language in the mathematics classroom -- Jeanine Deen and Hilde Hacquebord -- 17. Theoretical approaches to second-language learner varieties -- Peter Jordens -- 18. The role of form in language learning -- Leo van Lier -- 19. A methodology for evaluating the effectiveness -- of vocabulary treatments -- Paul Meara and Ignacio Rodriguez Sdnchez -- 20. The place of knowledge about language in the mother tongue -- and foreign language curriculum -- Rosamond Mitchell and Christopher Brumfit -- Part Four Reports -- 21. Towards an alphabetical grammar of Modern Israeli Hebrew -- Wout van Bekkum and Hans Hamburger -- 22. The use of word frequency data in the teaching of English -- as an alternative/additional language: -- Reflections on recent EET-list experience and experiments -- Michael Goethals -- 23. Helping advanced EFL learners improve their written English -- through self-correction tasks -- Pierre Kouraogo -- 24. A web-based foreign-language assistant -- John Nerbonne and Petra Smit -- 25. Subject didactics as the science -- of the foreign language teaching profession -- Aud Marit Simensen.