Language in Education

1: What is the role of language in Education? Soe Marlar Lwin and Rita Elaine Silver 2: What is the structure of language? Lubna Alsagoff and Chee Lick Ho 3: How do we use language to make meaning? Soe Marlar Lwin and Peter Teo 4: Why is there variation within a language? Anthea Fraser Gupta 5: How do children learn language? Theres Gr ter 6: How do speaking and writing support each other? Christine C. M. Goh and Paul Doyle 7: How is language used for learning? Rita Elaine Silver, A. R. Raslinda and Galyna Kogut 8: How do people use different languages differently? Manka M. Varghese and Rukmini Becerra Lubies 9: How does policy influence language in education? Francis M. Hult References Glossary

Rita Elaine Silver is Associate Professor at the National Institute of Education, Singapore. Soe Marlar Lwin is Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Education, Singapore.

Rita Silver and Sor Marlar Lwin have produced an invaluable resource for learning, reflection and enrichment about the infinitely complex and fascinating dimensions of language in education. Progressing by stages from the ubiquitous presence of language in education, through to structure, meaning and variation within languages, to children's cognitive and social processes of acquisition, and then to social varieties, communication contexts and policy realities, they traverse the full lifecycle of language in education. This is a convincing and ordered contribution to the field of language in education for teachers, parents and students. -- Joseph Lo Bianco, Professor of Language and Literacy Education, University of Melbourne, Australia 20130517 This inspiring, informative and unpretentious book provides an excellent introduction to the field. Topical and highly readable, the international team of contributors has produced a text which will appeal to a broad range of readers interested in finding out more about how language is used, taught and learned in educational settings. -- Viv Edwards, Professor of Language in Education, Reading University, UK 20130521 This edited collection brings together a number of chapters and suggested resources that will prove helpful to students and practising teachers alike.It reflects the linguistic and social aspects of language, its form and use, for educational settings, comprehensively and yet in an extremely accessible way. -- Rhonda Oliver, Professor of Education, Curtin University, Australia 20130603 This is a well-written, scholarly and informative book, which brings together key issues related to language and education, viewing language in all its social dimensions. It will be of value to students across many courses and levels of study, both undergraduate and postgraduate. It will have particular value for teachers wishing to improve their understandings of language and its role in teaching and learning. -- Jean Conteh,