What's in a word?: Connotation in teaching English to speakers of other languages

Description

This thesis focuses on connotative meaning routinely ignored or difficult to locate in the available ESL textbooks and dictionaries. This perceived absence led to the following study: a review of ESL textbooks, a review of standard monolingual English and learner dictionaries, and a survey of ESL instructors.

Links & Downloads

1. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2078
2. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3079&context=etd-project

Tags

Connotation (Linguistics)

Meaning (Psychology)

Education

First and Second Language Acquisition

Additional Fields

Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:csusb.edu/oai:scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu:etd-project-3079
Date	01 January 2002
Creators	Bozzetti-Engstrom, Marie Linnea
Publisher	CSUSB ScholarWorks
Source Sets	California State University San Bernardino
Detected Language	English
Type	text
Format	application/pdf
Source	Theses Digitization Project