Language and Education: Volume 9

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Language and Education: Volume 9
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Jonathan J. Webster
By (author) M.A.K. Halliday
SeriesCollected Works of M.A.K. Halliday
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:418
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156
Category/GenreSociolinguistics
ISBN/Barcode 9781847065766
ClassificationsDewey:370.14
Audience
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Publishing Details

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Publication Date 31 January 2009
Publication Country United Kingdom

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 In addition to the previously unpublished Applied Linguistics as an Evolving Theme (2002) originally presented by Professor Halliday on the occasion of his being awarded the first Gold Medal by the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

Author Biography

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.

Reviews

"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 *