ABSTRACT
No one could deny the interest and attention that language in education has attracted in recent decades. That interest itself arose from a century wide preoccupation with language and the part it played in human systems of interaction and communication. But, the study of language in education has its own history and traditions. This history can, of course, be traced back for centuries well before the last one and would involve the philosophy of human thought. However, language in education as we currently know it has, however, only come about in the last fifty years or so, and is intimately bound up with the growth and development of research and scholarship over this period.
