Date: 26-Oct-2011 From: Janet Joyce <jjoyceequinoxpub.com> Subject: Language and Education: Webster (Ed), Hasan E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Language and Education
Subtitle: Learning and Teaching in Society
Series Title: The Collected Works of Ruqaiya Hasan (Volume 3)
Published: 2011
Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
http://www.equinoxpub.com/
Author: Ruqaiya Hasan
Editor: Jonathan J. Webster
Hardback: ISBN: 9781904768371 Pages: 426 Price: U.K. £ 60 Comment: $90
Paperback: ISBN: 9781904768388 Pages: 426 Price: U.K. £ 25 Comment: $40
Abstract:
The last two decades have seen a good deal of work in educational linguistics, which has created a deeper understanding of how language works in different varieties of discourse and what a teacher needs to know for engaging successfully in language education. In this sense, the focus has been largely on instructional discourse - i.e., what is to be taught. The chapters of this book attempt to widen the field by focussing on who is being taught. After all, the true active element in the processes of education is the learner. Children have already acquired specific ways of learning, long before they enter the classroom, and in pluralistic societies learning styles vary systematically across communities. This book argues on the one hand the need to attend to the different voices in the classroom, and on the other to encourage an attitude of enquiry which creates awareness of the power of discourse in maintaining and/or changing societies.
Linguistic Field(s):
Applied Linguistics
Sociolinguistics
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