Linguistics in Education

[ann gavriel]

Hello everyone..

*         The original post from edling (16 Feb from Francis) caught my
interest.  Optimising linguistic knowledge /dissemination (= not just
preaching to the converted at conference, in journals, & so on..) has always
had my vote but particularly for teacher training domains.  A place to start
is language learning more generally, because since Latin went off-syllabus
for mainstream secondary education, many native English (USA & UK &
elsewhere) users are not taught ‘grammar’ even semi-formally.  But those
teachers who have at any stage learnt a second or third language have a
conscious and developing intuitive awareness of grammatical categories at
least.  So we need to be less Anglo-philic in terms of what we mean also by
‘syntax’.  French and German secondary education still teaches different
levels of ‘philology’.  We can learn nothing unless we have control over our
language, or the language of our schooling.  So we begin with teacher
training syllabuses, internationally, I would suggest.  I am a keen
participant in any project, Alex.  My postgrad Masters and 25 year career
has been in Applied Linguistics, at the tertiary level but very broad
interests
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Best wishes to all on this project,

Ann

 

 

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From: edling-bounces at bunner.geol.lu.se
[mailto:edling-bounces at bunner.geol.lu.se] On Behalf Of Alex Baratta
Sent: 17 February 2014 19:00
To: The Educational Linguistics List
Subject: Re: [Edling] Linguistics in Education

 


 
Hi all,
 
I'd love to be involved with this. One implication of this subject, as the
website states, is that it requires a more grounded knowledge of syntax on
the part of the teachers. I'm not suggesting they don't have this knowledge
of course, but that it might represent knowledge not previously required for
younger students. However, it is needed, as there are of course nouns/verbs
which are more prototypical than others and for whom traditional definitions
don't always fit. I'm happy to work on a collaborative project in any way I
can, as educational linguistics is an area I'm involved with.
 
Best,
 
Alex

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From: diane.pecorari at lnu.se
To: edling at bunner.geol.lu.se
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 15:15:57 +0000
Subject: Re: [Edling] Linguistics in Education

That's a super idea, Francis, and surely the sort of project to which a wiki
is best suited, i.e., coming up with a collective, received articulation of
how the phenomenon we're all interested in should actually be defined.

 

Regards,

 

Diane

 

Diane Pecorari

 

Professor of English Linguistics

Head, Department of Languages

Linnaeus University

351 95 Växjö

SWEDEN

 

+46 470 708570

 

diane.pecorari at lnu.se

 

From: edling-bounces at bunner.geol.lu.se
[mailto:edling-bounces at bunner.geol.lu.se] On Behalf Of Francis Hult
Sent: den 16 februari 2014 14:39
To: edling at bunner.geol.lu.se
Subject: [Edling] Linguistics in Education

 

I recently came across a Wikipedia entry for 'linguistics in education':
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistics_in_Education
 
I wonder if it would be worthwhile to put the collective wisdom of the
Edling  list to developing it or, perhaps, creating a new entry for
'educational linguistics'.
 
Francis


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