Language and Education: Volume 9 [Paperback]

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 In addition to the previously unpublished Applied Linguistics as an Evolving Theme (2002) originally presented by Professor Halliday on the occasion of his being awarded the first Gold Medal by the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.Ninth volume in the Collected Works of M.A.K. Halliday series, focusing on scope of language education.' ... 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

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 Learningló®