PART ONE Language and education 1
1 Language,linguistics,and education 3
2 Understanding and the acquisition of knowledge 21
3 Simplification and the teacher 33
PART TWO Second language learning 45
4 Teaching communicative competence 47
5 Language,culture,and English for Academic Purposes 55
PART THREE Language in British education 63
6 Language in education：coherence or chaos 65
PART FOUR Literature and education 85
7 Literature,power,and'the canon' 87
8 Assessing literary competence 93
PART FIVE The politics of language teaching 103
9 British cultural studies 105
10 Teaching English as a world language 115
11 The English language and language rights 127
PART SIX Research and understanding 143
12 Research in the language classroom 145
13 Teaching,researching,and knowledge 159
14 Educational linguistics,applied linguistics,and the study of language practices 167
Bibliography 189
Index 201