"A driving instructor can teach people driving without knowing anything about car mechanics. So why should a language teacher know anything about linguistics? "To answer the question, this paper discusses th..."A driving instructor can teach people driving without knowing anything about car mechanics. So why should a language teacher know anything about linguistics? "To answer the question, this paper discusses the relevance of linguistics to language teaching, analyses the value of linguistics to a language teacher and ends up with a conclusion that a language teacher should learn something about linguistics.展开更多
文摘"A driving instructor can teach people driving without knowing anything about car mechanics. So why should a language teacher know anything about linguistics? "To answer the question, this paper discusses the relevance of linguistics to language teaching, analyses the value of linguistics to a language teacher and ends up with a conclusion that a language teacher should learn something about linguistics.