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 according to Halliday and the Freemans. It also summarizes perspectives on first and second language acquisition, and covers topics in phonology, morphology, syntax, and concludes with resources.

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:

6. Through Language

7. About Language

8. Language

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

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

11. Morphological recognition

12. Syntactic understanding

13. Semantic understanding

14. P ragmatic understanding We have to know what these things are in order to teach them.

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

16. However, Lindfor Believed: Environments vary, and children learn at about the same time all around the world

17. Animals would also speak if this were the case

18. Children do not imitate adults

19. Learning language is too speedy to be done this way!