Educational
Linguistics

Michael Stubbs on the relation between linguistics and the teaching of language in schools. Copyright 1986; first published 1986, FIRST PUBLISHED IN PAPERBACK 1988 — this copy. ISBN 0-631-13898-6 hardback, 0-631-15942-8 paperback; typeset by DMB, Oxford, printed by TJ Press at Padstow. Of the books here it is the one closest to policy questions a Nigerian ministry would recognise: what linguistics can and cannot tell teachers, and what happens when the language of the school is not the language of the child.