Why study linguistcs?
appropriately select linguistic material for your students, to competently explain linguistic issues, and to adequately analyze and assess your students' language performance. Linguistics in the context [...] language teacher training Future teachers of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) need to give their students instruction in English pronunciation, spelling, vocabulary and grammar. But language teaching, at [...] high degree of linguistic variability on all levels in actual usage on the other hand. Moreover, students need to acquire pragmatic knowledge, e.g. using the right words and expressions to establish and