Language and Education

Volume 9
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8264-5875-9
Verlag: Continnuum-3PL

Buch, Englisch, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 790 g

Reihe: Collected Works of M.A.K. Halliday

The ninth volume in the acclaimed Collected Works of M. A. K. Halliday series
- Halliday is one of the most celebrated linguists in the world, having come up with the widely used theory of Systemic Functional Linguistics.

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 three headings: language learning; learning through language; and learning about language. The volume begins with a new work from Professor Halliday on “Linguistics and language education”. Nineteen papers have been selected to be included in this volume, covering the following areas: mother tongue education; second language learning; multilingual societies; contexts of language education; and educational linguistics.

Zielgruppe

Libraries/Academics/Postgraduates

Autoren/Hrsg.

Halliday, Michael A. K.

Halliday, M. A. K.

Webster, J.

Webster, Jonathan J.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Literatur, Deutsch, Fremdsprachen (Unterricht & Didaktik)
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Linguistics and language education
Mother tongue education
1.Linguistics and the 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 socialization: home and school
6. Literacy and linguistics: a functional perspective Second language learning
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 Multilingual societies
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 Contexts of language education
13. The notion of ‘context’ in language education
14. Language across the culture
15. Contexts in English Educational linguistics
16. A response to some question on mother tongue education
17. Some basic concepts of educational linguistics
18. On the concept of ‘educational linguistics’
19. A language development approach to education

Über Autor(innen)

Professor M. A. K. Halliday was Foundation Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia, until his retirement and has taught as a Visiting Professor around the world. As a self-styled ‘generalist’ he has published in many branches of linguistics.

Jonathan J. Webster is Head of the Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics at the City University of Hong Kong.