Language, schools and classrooms / Michael Stubbs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stubbs, Michael, 1947- author.

Series:

Routledge library editions. Education ; v. 200.

Routledge library editions. Education ; v. 200

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language arts--Great Britain.

Language arts.

Children--Great Britain--Language.

Children.

Sociolinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (169 p.)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The role of language is central in education - but there is much debate about the exact relation between children's language and their educational success. The author provides a clear guide to the basic issues in the debates over language deficit, standard English and classroom language, and in this edition he shows how work in sociolinguistics can give a better understanding of the place of language in education and society.

Contents:

LANGUAGE, SCHOOLS AND CLASSROOMS; Copyright; Language, schools and classrooms; Copyright; Contents; Editor's introduction; Foreword to the second edition; 1 Why is language important in education?; The language of education?; Language, learning and classrooms; Teacher training and language study; 2 Some basic sociolinguistic concepts; Language and attitudes to language; The primitive language myth; Standard and nonstandard English; Language structure and language use; The implication of such distinctions; 3 Bernstein's theory of restricted and elaborated codes; The work of Basil Bernstein

Bernstein's early workBernstein's later work (1973); Do the codes exist?; Some possible confusions; Conclusions; 4 Labov and the myth of linguistic deprivation; Languages, logic, explicitness and grammar; Nonstandard languages as media of education; The myth of linguistic deprivation; Labov and Bernstein; West Indian children in British schools; A pseudo-problem?; 5 The need for studies of classroom language; Reasons for studying classroom languag; Our ignorance of classroom langua; The rationale for naturalistic studies; Teachers as researchers; 6 Studies of classroom language

Commentaries on classroom dialogueThe structure of classroom dialogue; The classroom as a sociolinguistic setting; Studying social processes in classrooms; 7 Teaching and talking: the hidden curriculum of classroom talk; The hidden curriculum; The framing of educational knowledge; Discourse structure and assumptions about teachin; The social construction of children's ability; Teaching as talking: some cross-cultural data; 8 Towards a sociolinguistic analysis of language in education; Language as evidence for educational statemen; Language is organized

Criteria for studies of language in education9 Some topics for investigation; Further reading; References and name index; Subject index

Notes:

First published in 1983 by Methuen.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-46992-3

1-280-68602-2

9786613662965

1-136-46993-1

0-203-12856-7

9780203128565

OCLC:

804662314