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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255139203321

Autore

Halliday M. A. K (Michael Alexander Kirkwood), <1925-2018, >

Titolo

Aspects of Language and Learning [[electronic resource] /] / by M.A.K. Halliday ; edited by Jonathan J. Webster

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2016

ISBN

3-662-47821-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (154 p.)

Collana

The M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series, , 2198-9869

Disciplina

370

Soggetti

Language and education

Child development

Linguistic anthropology

Language Education

Early Childhood Education

Linguistic Anthropology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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. .

Sommario/riassunto

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 master this kind of language and put it to his or her own use as a means of learning.  In subsequent chapters, Halliday explores the relationship between language, education and culture, again taking the language of science as the focal point for the discussion; and finally he draws these various themes together to construct a linguistic interpretation of how we learn, and how we learn how to learn.