Language and Education Volume 9

by Halliday, M.A.K.; Webster, Jonathan J.

• ISBN13: 9780826458759
• ISBN10: 0826458750
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-05-29
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Part of the Collected Works of MAK Halliday series, this work deals with the subject of language and education. It sums up the scope of language education under the following five headings: mother tongue education; second language learning; multilingual societies; contexts of language education; and educational linguistics.

Table of Contents

Mother tongue education
Linguistics and the teaching of English	p. 25
A "linguistic approach" to the teaching of the mother tongue?	p. 35
Some thoughts on language in the middle school years	p. 49
Differences between spoken and written language : some implications for literacy teaching	p. 63
Language and socialization : home and school	p. 81
Literacy and linguistics : a functional perspective	p. 97
Second-language learning
General linguistics and its application to language teaching	p. 135
Is learning a second language like learning a first language all over again?	p. 174
Learning Asian languages	p. 194
Multilingual societies
National language and language planning in a multilingual society	p. 219
Some reflections on language education in multilingual societies, as seen from the standpoint of linguistics	p. 239
Where languages meet : the significance of the Hong Kong experience	p. 254
Contexts of language education
The notion of "context" in language education	p. 269
Language across the culture	p. 291
Contexts of English	p. 306
Educational linguistics
A response to some questions on the language issue	p. 331
Some basic concepts of educational linguistics	p. 341
On the concept of "educational linguistics"	p. 354
A language development approach to education	p. 368
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