This document provides an overview and summary of key topics from the book "Essential Linguistics" by David Freeman and Yvonne Freeman. It discusses why linguistic knowledge is important for teachers, concepts like what it means to know a word, theories of first and second language acquisition, phonology and teaching phonemic awareness, and the history and issues with teaching phonics. It also notes resources used in the book.

1. Reviewing Essential Linguistics by David Freeman and Yvonne Freeman Presented Kathryn Jesser and Abigail Bloem

2. Overview Why this Book is important according to Halliday and Freeman and Freeman

3. First and Second Language Acquisition

4. The technical aspects of linguistics and how they work in the classroom

5. Why This Book is Important to Teachers According to Halliday, cited in Freeman and Freeman, we all learn Through Language

6. About Language

7. Language Freeman and Freeman: “Teachers with linguistic knowledge can help their students learn language.” (xi)

8. What Does it Mean to “Know” a Word? Phonological recognition

9. Morphological recognition

10. Syntactic understanding

11. Semantic understanding

12. P ragmatic understanding

13. We have to know what these things are in order to teach them.

14. First Language Acquisition: History Skinner and Behavioris m: all learning is a process of stimulus and response