Envisioning linguistics in secondary education: An Australian exemplar

Abstract

Introduction A fundamental issue in successfully integrating linguistics into the school curriculum is developing a vision of language and linguistics which is relevant to the needs of school learning. While suitably packaging linguistics for study in primary and secondary education may sound simple, it is far from easy and by tradition academic linguists have not been particularly concerned about engaging with the challenge. However, with the relatively recent emergence and recognition within the discipline of ‘educational linguistics’ and a growing acknowledgement within education and society generally in the US, the UK and Australia of the need for knowledge about language to be an integr..