The phrase "approaches to language study" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing different methods or perspectives in the field of language education or linguistics.
Example: "In our seminar, we will explore various approaches to language study, including communicative language teaching and task-based learning."
Alternatives: "methods of language analysis" or "perspectives on language education".
Hitchings acknowledges the tie between political correctness (he calls it that) and the descriptive approach to language study.
Functionalism, in linguistics, the approach to language study that is concerned with the functions performed by language, primarily in terms of cognition (relating information), expression (indicating mood), and conation (exerting influence).
As mentioned earlier, Michael Halliday's description of Chinese in the 1940's and 1950's (e.g. Halliday and Ellis 1951; Halliday 1956 , 1959 as well as the multilingual approach to language study J. R. Firth had established in London set the stage for the evolution of systemic functional theory, in general, and systemic multilingual studies, in particular.
This volume aims to unify formal approaches to language and presents both specific case studies of DSM and theoretical approaches.
I also started to learn more about student-centered or social-constructive approaches to language learning and teaching later in my graduate studies in the United States.
The New Psychology of Language volumes broke new ground by introducing functional and cognitive approaches to language structure in terms already familiar to psychologists, thus defining the next era in the scientific study of language.
All contemporary approaches to language acquistion have acknowledged Gold's results, but those results do not by themselves vindicate any one of our three approaches to the study of language.
This study tested the efficacy of a particular early intervention technique derived from an indirect language stimulation (ILS) approach to language acquisition for culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) children who are most at risk.
