Aspects of Language and Learning

• Main Author: Halliday, M.A.K (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Webster, Jonathan J. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Series: The M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series,
• Subjects: Education.; Language and education.; Child development.; Linguistic anthropology.; Language Education.; Childhood Education.; Linguistic Anthropology.

This book is based on a series of lectures, which begin with a look at the history of the language that we use in order to encode our knowledge, particularly our scientific knowledge, i.e., the history of scientific English.  Prof. M.A.K. Halliday poses the question of how a growing child comes to m...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Language, learning, and “educational knowledge”
• The evolution of a language of science
• Learning to learn through language
• Language and learning in the primary school
• The language of school “subjects”
• English and Chinese: similarities and differences
• Languages and cultures
• Languages, education and science: future needs. .