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PA90. Helping EFL Students Comprehend Linguistic Landscapes

Abstract

The presentation proposes the integration of linguistic landscapes, i.e., use of language in the environment, in teaching English to students studying abroad. They cover directions, names of places and ads. The instructor introduces the linguistic landscape, overviews difficult vocabulary, grammatical structures and gives pre-questions. Contextual clues and background knowledge are used to infer the meaning of difficult words and the whole linguistic landscape. Students may identify their syntactic, pragmatic and sociolinguistic features.

Presenter 1

Reima Al-Jarf, Professor
King Saud University
Reima Al Jarf is a professor of English. She has published 160 journal articles and book chapters and has given 275 conference presentations in 61 countries. She reviews articles for numerous journals. She has won 3 excellence in teaching awards.

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