Linguistics for Language Teachers: Lessons for Classroom Practice

I used LFLT this past semester as the main text in an Intro to Linguistics for MA TESOL students. I appreciated it's attempt to relate linguistics content to classroom issues, although it was surprisingly quiet on topics one might have expected in this context: phonemic awareness, morphological awareness, phonics vs whole Lg. Etc.The problems sets are skimpy and could have included more relevant to classroom practice. I also wasn't sure how much the little "Voices from the Classroom" boxes contributed. The chapters are solid, contentwise, with the exception of the syntax chapter, which is (frankly) weak. Instructors will need to correct some of the insufficiencies in their rules, add discussion about complements vs. modifiers, etc.All in all, though, a good outing whose initial deficiencies can all be fixed in later editions.