LLAS Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies

Clinical Linguistics for students of linguistics

Sara Howard - 11 October 2002

This article addresses issues in teaching and learning of Clinical Linguistics for students on degrees in general linguistics and language

Discourse analysis

Jim Miller - 27 September 2002

In its broadest sense discourse analysis provides a framework of general communicative behaviour within which syntax, semantics and pragmatics can be situated. In its narrower sense it takes in the organisation of text and information: ordering old and new information, focusing on or making salient particular pieces of information and the constituents that carry them, shifts of event or scene, changes of text-type. These topics relate directly to matters such as the function of syntactic structures, choice of different types of referring expression and function of intonation patterns.

Language and education

- 27 September 2002

This paper outlines an approach towards teaching and learning about language and education which is underpinned by sociocultural theory. It argues for an exploration of the connections between language and learning through analysis of educational discourses, including classroom talk, academic writing, and academic computer mediated communication.