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 In addition to the previously unpublished Applied Linguistics as an Evolving Theme (2002) originally presented by Professor Halliday on the occasion of his being awarded the first Gold Medal by the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.

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Author:   Jonathan J. Webster (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) ,  M.A.K. Halliday (University of Sydney, Australia)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Volume:   v. 9
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.732kg
ISBN:  

9781847065766

ISBN 10:   1847065767
Pages:   418
Publication Date:   31 January 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Language:   English

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"

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) Roy Harris Times Literary Supplement

""an initiative greatly to be welcomed.""   Reviewed in IH Journal, 2008 ' ... 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) -- Roy Harris * Times Literary Supplement *

Author Information

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 journal WORD, and the editor of the forthcoming Journal of World Languages (2014). M.A.K. Halliday was Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney.

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