A Level Website: Book Guide to English Language
2. The NEAB Guide to English Language books
The following guide is reproduced by kind permission of the Northern Examination and Assesment Board and is an extract from their English Language A-level reading list. They describe it as "a list of books that have proved most popular with teachers and best known by students".
For the full version contact NEAB, 12 Harter St., Manchester M15 6EX, England.
Tel. 0161-953 1180 Fax 0161-273 7572
This list is in three sections:
(1) Books For Students To Work From
(2) Books For Students To Read
(3) Books Containing Materials That Can Be Presented Directly To Students
2.1. Books For Students To Work From
The Language Awareness Project
J. Keen Framework Press 1987 ISBN 1850080763
Language and Gender
A. Goddard Framework Press 1987
Pack 1 - ISBN 185008081X
Pack 2 - ISBN 1850080860
A Level English Language Starter Pack.
A. Goddard, J. Keen and J. Shuttleworth, Framework Press 1992 ISBN 1850080283
Photocopiable, activity based resources
Your Own Words.
J. Wainwright and J. Hutton Nelson 1992
Gives opportunities to practise stylistic analysis and commentary in relation to both reading and writing.
Researching Language A. Goddard Framework Press 1993 ISBN 1850080283
Advice on projects and investigation
Something To Do With Language (1990)
Some More Things To Do With Language (1993) Volume 2
Compiled by D. Hurry and D. Reah. Available from PAVIC Publications c/o
Sheffield Hallam University, Collegiate Crescent Campus, Sheffield S10 2BP
Varieties of English
D. Freeborn, Langford and French. MacMillan 1993 (2nd edition.)
ISBN 0333589173 Pb
ISBN 0333589165 HC
Explorations in Language
A.J. Tinkel C.U.P. 1988
ISBN 0521336066
Language in the National Curriculum: Materials for Professional Development
INSET materials devised for teachers of pupils 5 to 16, but which are in themselves an introductory course in linguistics applied to reading, writing, speaking and listening.
Considering Prose A. Mayne and J. Shuttleworth Hodder 1984
2.2. Books For Students To Read
A Reference Guide toAS/A Level English G.R. and B Keith Longman 1991
Written for students, explaining concepts and terminology (both linguistic and
literary).
The CambridgeEncyclopedia of Language D.Crystal
C.U.P. 1988 ISBN 0521424437
Everybody's favourite; it remains invaluable.
The English Language
D.Crystal Penguin 1990
Good introduction for students. ISBN 0140135324
The Study of Language. An Introduction.
G. Yule C.U.P. 1985
An Introduction to Language and Society
M. Montgomery Methuen 1986 ISBN 0415040027
Sociolinguistics: an introduction to language and society. - 3rd ed.
P. Trudgill Penguin, 1995 ISBN 014023926X
You Just Don't Understand D. Tannen Virago 1992
Early Language P.A. and J.G. de Villiers Fontana 1979
Listen to your Child D. Crystal ISBN 0140110151
A good introduction for students.
Language Change: Progress orDecay? J. Aitchison C.U.P. 1991 (2nd edition) ISBN 0521422833
The Story of English
R. McCrum et al BBC 1992 OUT OF PRINT
English Language, the Mother Tongue B. Bryson Penguin 1991 ISBN 014014305X
Rediscover Grammar
D. Crystal Longman 1988
2.3. Books Containing Materials That Can Be Presented Directly To Students
An Introduction to Language V. Fromkin, R. Rodman Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1988 (4th edition).
American perspective. Lots of lively examples.
Language and Social Networks L. Milroy RKP 1987
Authority in Language J. and L. Milroy RKP 1989 2nd edition ISBN0415065755
Language and Power N. Fairclough Longman 1989
Women, Men and Language J. Coates Longman 1986
Language, the Loaded Weapon D. Bolinger Longman 1980
The Articulate Mammal: an introduction to psycholinguistics. - 3rd ed.
Jean Aitchison. London : Routledge 1992 ISBN: 0415083958
Language Acquisition [7b(v)] (v)
Language Acquisition P. Fletcher, M. Garman C.UP. 1985 ISBN 0521277809
Children's Writing and Reading K. Perera Blackwell 1984
A History of the English Language A. C. Baugh and T. Cable RKP l 978 3rd edition ISBN 0415093791
A History of English B.Strang Methuen 1970
Orality and Literacy W.J. Ong Methuen 1979 ISBN 0415027969
Accent, Dialect and the School P.Trudgill Arnold 1975
Metaphors we Live By G. Lakoff and M. Johnson University of Chicago Press 1980 ISBN 0226468011
How Conversation Works Wardhaugh, R. Blackwell 1985
Style in Fiction G.N. Leech. and M.H. Short Longman 1984
Seeing Through Language R.Carter and W. Nash Blackwell 1990
Investigating English Style D. Crystal and D. Davy Longman 1969