Language and Education
Volume 9
Published on 31. January 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
418 pages
978-1-84706-576-6 (ISBN)
Description
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 In addition to the previously unpublished Applied Linguistics as an Evolving Theme (2002) originally presented by Professor Halliday on the occasion of his being awarded the first Gold Medal by the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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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
718 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84706-576-6 (9781847065766)
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03/2007
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Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Persons
Professor M. A. K. Halliday (b. 1925) 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. Professor Jonathan J. Webster is Head of the Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics at the City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Content
Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Applied Linguistics as an Evolving Theme; PART 1: MOTHER TONGUE EDUCATION; PART 2: SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING; PART 3: MULTILINGUAL SOCIETIES; PART 4: CONTEXTS OF LANGUAGE EDUCATION; PART 5: EDUCATIONAL LINGUISTICS.