• Explains language and learning specifically for education students
• Engaging writing style and pedagogy
• Additional chapter on learning English as another language
• Emphasises critical pedagogy
• Explores issues of language and power
• Considers the changing nature of literacy and the breadth of multiliteracies
• More explicit reference to new technologies and multiliteracies

Benefits of new edition

• Engaging and easy to read, with lots of pedagogy
• Additional chapter on learning English as another language
• More on oral language
• Emphasises critical pedagogies
• Explores issues of language and power
• Considers the changing nature of literacy and the breadth of multiliteracies

Preface

Part 1: Language and Culture

1. An Overview of Language and Learning

2. Doing Things with Language

3. Language Variation

Part 2: Linguistics and Language Structure

4. An Introduction to Linguistics and Grammar

5. Discourse Analysis/Text Linguistics

6. Syntax, Morphology, and Lexicology

7. Phonology and the Relationship between Letters and Sounds

8. Differences between Speech and Writing

Part 3: Language and Learning

9. Learning Language

10. Learning a Second Language

11. Learning Literacy

12. Learning and Language: A Summary Appendix: Australian English phonemes

Glossary of language terms

References

Index