Linguistic Perspectives on Language and Education

by Anita Barry

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.

288 pages, Paperback

First published June 10, 2007

Reviews

[Angela · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting read overall. I particularly liked learning about language acquisition of children, baby babble, and the books appreciation of the many dialects outside of Standard American English.

[Amy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I find linguistics fascinating!

[Sam · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is well-written, honest, attention-grabbing, and even has mini-lessons I can use in teaching, huzzah! Helpful book is helpful!