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Direct linkAggarwal, Garima – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2015
This commentary contextualises Bakhtin's ideas on language in education, with a special emphasis on his construct of dialogism, by producing and examining excerpts from two of his major works. These excerpts familiarise the reader with Bakhtin's four fundamental constructs: "utterance," "dialogism,"…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Dialogs (Language), Language Styles, Language Attitudes
Kumar, Rajesh; Yunus, Reva – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2014
This article looks at the contribution of insights from theoretical linguistics to an understanding of language acquisition and the nature of language in terms of their potential benefit to language education. We examine the ideas of innateness and universal language faculty, as well as multilingualism and the language-society relationship. Modern…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Multilingualism, Linguistic Theory, Language Acquisition
Agnihotri, Rama Kant – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2013
The basic questions that a scholar interested in the study of language asks are concerned with language structure, acquisition, and change. William Labov is a linguist who has deeply influenced the linguistic scene in the past 60 years. It is to Labov's credit that he showed, backed by solid evidence, that the questions concerning language…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Linguistic Theory, Ghettos, Disadvantaged
