Ray Williams Language Library

 

All books, periodicals and non book material relating to the teaching and learning of language are housed separately on the first floor.

They can be easily identified on the library catalogue as they are arranged by the Language Teaching Classification which uses letters rather than numbers to identify the subject. The basic arrangement is into four main subject groups.

E - Language

I - English Language

O - Language learning and teaching

U - Teaching materials

As with all classification schemes these main subject groups break down into more specific areas of the subject.

For example:

OB - Generalia of Language Learning and Teaching

OD - Theory and Principles of Learning and Teaching

OF - Sociology of Language Learning

OH - Testing and Examining

OS - Language Skills(2)

These subject areas then break down further as

For example:

OSB - Literacy and Illiteracy

OSD - Writing

OSL - Spelling

OSN - Punctuation

OSR - Reading Skills

The Language Teaching Classification is a comparatively simple scheme and most subject notation will be of two or three letters only. Occasionally to be more specific it is necessary to combine two (or more) subject groups, for example:

OLB OKF Use of drama techniques in initial teacher training - is a combination of OLB Drama as a teaching method and OKF Teacher training

Please note that the classification divides theoretical works from the more practical teaching works on the same topic so that for example a book entitled The Readability of Economics textbooks is classified at IND whilst English for Economics resides at UMD.

Books and audio visual material are issued in the same way as items from the Main Library; journals are for use in the Library only.

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