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CELTA Language Analysis Handout

This document introduces language analysis and provides guidance for analyzing a target language. It recommends analyzing the form, meaning, and phonology of a language. Context is important, and language should first be analyzed in context. Poor language analysis can lead to ineffective teaching, so teachers should check their analysis in reference books before lesson planning. Language analysis must be sufficiently detailed and accurate to be useful for planning and teaching lessons. Context and comprehension activities establish meaning, while repetition and substitution drilling establish form and phonology. Practice tasks can focus on any combination of these elements.

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CELTA Language Analysis Handout

This document introduces language analysis and provides guidance for analyzing a target language. It recommends analyzing the form, meaning, and phonology of a language. Context is important, and language should first be analyzed in context. Poor language analysis can lead to ineffective teaching, so teachers should check their analysis in reference books before lesson planning. Language analysis must be sufficiently detailed and accurate to be useful for planning and teaching lessons. Context and comprehension activities establish meaning, while repetition and substitution drilling establish form and phonology. Practice tasks can focus on any combination of these elements.

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Introduction to Language Analysis

1. Analyse your target language for form, meaning and phonology.

Form structure, grammar (rules), patterns, word order, spelling, syntax,


paragraphing, layout, punctuation, statements, questions, negatives …
Meaning meaning, use, function, intention, register (formal/ informal/
neutral), appropriacy, connotation, time reference …
Phonology phonemes (consonants, vowels, consonant clusters …)
stress (word stress, unstressed syllables …)
connected speech (linking, intonation, sentence stress …)

2. Context is everything! Start your analysis with language in context. (Who is speaking? Who
are they speaking to? What are they talking about? Is time referred to? How do they feel? Is
the situatio n formal or informal? What is the speaker’s intention? And so on.)

3. Poor L.A. almost always leads to ineffective teaching. Before planning the details of your
lesson, check your work in at least one reference book. The coursebook (and/or teacher’s
book) may also be useful. Discuss your ideas with your TP colleagues and tutors.

4. Remember, it is a requirement of the CELTA that you demonstrate competent L.A.. This
means that your L.A will need to be sufficiently detailed and accurate to be useful for you in
planning and teaching your lessons.

5. Don’t lecture your students. If your contextualised examples don’t help you to clarify the
target language for your students, you’ve gone wrong somewhere.

6. Context and comprehension/concept checking establish meaning.

7. Repetition and substitution drilling establish form and phonology.

8. Practice tasks can focus on any combination of form, meaning and phonology.

9. Listening tasks can be exploited to clarify form, meaning and phonology.

10. Reading tasks can be exploited to clarify form and meaning.

Some useful books:


1. Practical English Usage, Michael Swan, OUP
2. Grammar for English Language Teachers, Martin Parrot, CUP
3. A Concise Grammar for English Language Teachers, Tony Penston, TP Publications
4. Learner English, ed. Michael Swan, OUP
5. English Grammar in Use, Raymond Murphy, CUP
6. How English Works, Michael Swan & Catherine Walter, OUP
7. Oxford Practice Grammar, John Eastwood, OUP
8. The Anti-Grammar Grammar Book, Hall & Shepheard, Longman

Teacher: Katie Date: 11/02/2020 Introduction to Language Analysis

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