內容提要
WhatissodistinctiveaboutMichaelHalliday'sworkinlinguisticsisthatithasalwaysbeenmotivatedandinformedbyaconcernfortheactualityoflanguageexperience,ofwhatmakesitrealforitsusersandlearners.Thepapersherearearemarkablerecordofhisexplorationsovertheyearsintotherelevanceoflinguisticsforlanguageeducation,andhisenormouslyimpressivecontributiontoaprincipledapproachtobothfirstandsecondlanguageteaching.Butthisvolumeisnotonly,notindeedprincipally,ofinterestasanhistoricalrecordofadistinguishedscholar'sinnovativethinking.Foralthoughthepapersherearedated,thethinkingiscertainlynot:overandoveragain,onefindsinsightfulandincisivediscussionofissuesinlanguageeducationthat,invariousguises,remainaspertinentandproblematictodayastheyhaveeverbeen.Thisisanabsorbingbook,andreadingitmakesoneunderstandwhyMichaelHellidayhasbeen,andcontinuestobe,suchaninfluentialandinspirationalfigureinthefieldofwhathehimselfhascalled"appliablelinguistics".目錄
PrefaceAcknowledgements
Introduction
PARTONE:MOTHERTONGUEEDUCATION
Editor'sIntroduction
1.LinguisticsandtheTeachingofEnglish(1967)
2.A"LinguisticApproach"totheTeachingoftheMotherTongue?(1971)
3.SomeThoughtsonLanguageintheMiddleSchoolYears(1977)
4.DifferencesbetweenSpokenandWrittenLanguage:SomeImplicationsforLiteracyTeaching(1979)
5.LanguageandSocialization:HomeandSchool(1988)
6.LiteracyandLinguistics:AFunctional,Perspective(1996)
PARTTWO:SECOND-LANGUAGELEARNING
Editor'sIntroduction
7.GeneralLinguisticsanditsApplicationtoLanguageTeaching(1960)
8.IsLearningaSecondLanguageLikeLearningaFirstLanguageAllOverAgain?(1978)
9.LearningAsianLanguages(1986)
PARTTHREE:MULTILINGUALSOCIETIES
Editor'sIntroduction
10.NationalLanguageandLanguagePanninginaMultilingualSociety(1972)
11.SomeReflectionsonLanguageEducationinMultilingualSocieties,asSeenfromtheStandpointofLinguistics(1979)
12.WhereLanguagesMeet:TheSignificanceoftheHongKongExperience(1998)
PARTFOUR:CONTEXTSOFLANGUAGEEDUCATION
Editor'sIntroduction
13.TheNotionof"Context"inLanguageEducation(1991)
14.LanguageAcrosstheCulture(1986)
15.ContextsofEnglish(1994)
PARTFIVE:EDUCATIONALLINGUISTICS
Editor'sIntroduction
16.AResponsetoSomeQuestionsontheLanguageIssue(1981)
17.SomeBasicCOnceptsofEducationalLinguistics(1988)
18.OntheConceptof"EducationalLinguistics"(1990)
19.ALanguageDevelopmentApproachtoEducation(1994)
Bibliography
Index