Language and Education: Volume 9

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

Overview

The ninth volume in Professor M.A.K. Halliday's collected works is dedicated to the subject of language and education. Professor Halliday 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. In addition to the previously unpublished Applied Linguistics as an Evolving Theme (2002) originally presented by Professor Halliday on the occasion of his being awarded the first Gold Medal by the International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA), this volume contains another nineteen papers covering a comprehensive breadth of topics in language and education addressed by Professor Halliday over the course of his career. The chapters cover language development, language teaching, multilingualism, functional variation in language, and the place of linguistics in education.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826458759
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	05/29/2007
Series:	Collected Works of M.A.K. Halliday , #9
Pages:	418
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.94(d)

About the Author

Professor Jonathan J. Webster is Head of the Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics at the City University of Hong Kong. He is also the Managing Editor of the International Linguistics Association's jourbanal WORD, and the editor of the forthcoming Jourbanal of World Languages (2014).

Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgments
Introduction: Applied Linguistics as an Evolving Theme PART 1: MOTHER TONGUE EDUCATION

Editor's Introduction 1. Linguistic and Teaching of English 2. A "Linguistic Approach" to the Teaching of the Mother Tongue? 3. Some Thoughts on Language in the Middle School Years 4. Differences between Spoken and Written Language: Some Implications for Literacy Teaching 5. Language and Socialisation: Home and School 6. Literacy and Linguistics: A Functional Perspective


PART 2: SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING Editor's Introduction 7. General Linguistics and Its Application to Language Teaching 8. Is Learning a Second Language Like Learning a First Language all Over Again? 9. Learning Asian Languages


PART 3: MULTILINGUAL SOCIETIES Editor's Introduction 10. National Language and Language Planning in a Multilingual Society 11. Some Reflections on Language Education in Multilingual Societies, as Seen from the Standpoint of Linguistics 12. Where Languages Meet: The Significance of the Hong Kong Experience


PART 4: CONTEXTS OF LANGUAGE EDUCATION Editor's Introduction 13. The Notion of "Context" in Language Education 14. Language Across the Culture 15. Contexts of English


PART 5: EDUCATIONAL LINGUISTICS Editor's Introduction 16. A Response to Some Questions on the Language Issue 17. Some Basic Concepts of Educational Linguistics 18. On the Concept of "Educational Linguistics" 19. A Language Development Approach to Education Bibliography Index

Editorial Reviews

' ... a major enterprise comparable to a grand retrospective of the paintings of some prominent artist of a distinctive school.' (on the Collected Works of M.A.K. Halliday series)--Sanford Lakoff "Times Literary Supplement "

"an initiative greatly to be welcomed." Reviewed in IH Journal, 2008

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