Linguistic Perspectives on Language and Education by Barry,

ISBN: 0131589288

Author: Barry, Anita

Condition: new

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.

• 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.