Linguistic Perspectives on Language and Education

Linguistic Perspectives on Language and Education

• The goal of this book is to enrich the perception of language behavior and language interactions among individuals and informs the approach to classroom instruction.
• Helps define the connections between linguistics and education, and how the study of language affects all aspects of education.
• Eleven distinctive chapters on linguistics, using language in all its proper contexts, and how linguistics and literacy work together.
• Exercises, Suggested Projects, and Further Reading at the end of every chapter.
• Glossary of terms at the end of the book.

This book provides teachers with the background knowledge for understanding the role linguistics plays in literacy development.  It fits the linguistics for teachers course, a topic that is front and center of the field's need for pre-service and in-service teachers to understand language development and the role morphology, pragmatics, semantics, and syntax plays in literacy development and language acquisition.