Investigating Language
Joe Belanger and Wayne Sawyer
Investigating Language is a collection of exercises and activities exploring many different, interesting, and often unusual, aspects of language. The activities adopt a problem-solving approach, and incude looking at how several different text types are used, investigating the history of language, how it has changed and how it can be used for different purposes, and exploring the ideas of George Orwell. The information and activities in he book can be used as part of a lesson on language or as the basis of a language unit for middle and upper secondary students. 84pp, 2006, Phoenix Education