Idealism and Relevance. An Entertainment.

Murphy, Dermot F.

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ERIC Number: EJ321149

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Publication Date: 1985

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Idealism and Relevance. An Entertainment.

Murphy, Dermot F.

System, v13 n1 p31-35 1985

Through a dialog argues that transformational grammar should not be used as the linguistic description in university courses in applied linguistics because it has no particular validity as a pedagogical grammar, because it has a narrow view of the nature of language, and because it is theoretically inadequate.(SED)

Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Evaluation, Higher Education, Language Processing, Transformational Generative Grammar

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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