Language and Education: Learning and Teaching in - The Collected Works of Ruqaiya Hasan Vol 3

Ruqaiya Hasan

ISBN 10: 1904768385 / ISBN 13: 9781904768388

Verlag: MY - University of Toronto Press, 2011

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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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Ruqaiya Hasan has taught and held visiting positions at various universities in England, America and Australia. Her last appointment was at Macquarie University, Australia, from where she retired as Emeritus Professor in 1994. Throughout her career, she has researched and published widely in the areas of stylistics, culture, context and text, lexicogrammar and semantic variation. Jonathan J. Webster is Professor and Head, Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics, and Director, The Halliday Centre for Intelligent Applications of Language Studies at the City University of Hong Kong. He is also the General Editor of the Equinox journal Linguistics and the Human Sciences and the editor (with Ruqaiya Hasan and Christian Matthiessen) of the two- volume Continuing Discourse on Language: A Functional Perspective (Equinox, 2007).

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Titel: Language and Education: Learning and ...
Verlag: MY - University of Toronto Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
Einband: PAP
Zustand: New