On the concept of “educational linguistics”

Abstract

Abstract This paper was first presented at a language in education conference and workshop held at Murdoch University, Western Australia in December 1989, convened by Michael O’Toole. The conference was one in a series held annually in universities around Australia during the previous decade. It was designed to promote dialogue between leading scholars and other participants, adopting as its theme “Discipline – Dialogue – Difference”. Halliday’s paper was the opening plenary, and it was responded to by Gunther Kress, whose paper follows in this issue.1