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Aspects of Language and Learning

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Authors:
  1. M.A.K. Halliday

    1. The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

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Editors:
  1. Jonathan J. Webster

    1. City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong

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  • Presents a very readable discussion from the founder of systemic functional linguistics, MAK Halliday, of the relationship among language, education and culture
  • Includes comprehensive coverage of issues of language and the encoding of knowledge, with particular reference to the history of scientific English
  • Gives an insightful linguistic interpretation of how we learn and how we learn how to learn
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: The M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series (TMAKHLFLS)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Language, Learning and ‘Educational Knowledge’

    • M. A. K. Halliday
    Pages 1-15

  3. The Evolution of a Language of Science

    • M. A. K. Halliday
    Pages 17-34

  4. Learning to Learn Through Language

    • M. A. K. Halliday
    Pages 35-52

  5. Language and Learning in the Primary School

    • M. A. K. Halliday
    Pages 53-70

  6. The Language of School ‘Subjects’

    • M. A. K. Halliday
    Pages 71-90

  7. English and Chinese: Similarities and Differences

    • M. A. K. Halliday
    Pages 91-109

  8. Languages and Cultures

    • M. A. K. Halliday
    Pages 111-129

  9. Languages, Education and Science: Future Needs

    • M. A. K. Halliday
    Pages 131-149
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About this book

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.

Authors, Editors and Affiliations

  • City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong

    Jonathan J. Webster

  • The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

    M.A.K. Halliday

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Aspects of Language and Learning

  • Authors: M.A.K. Halliday

  • Editors: Jonathan J. Webster

  • Series Title: The M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47821-9

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-47820-2Published: 31 March 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-56904-7Published: 25 April 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-47821-9Published: 22 March 2016

  • Series ISSN: 2198-9869

  • Series E-ISSN: 2198-9877

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 149

  • Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Language Education, Early Childhood Education, Linguistic Anthropology

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