ABSTRACT
This book has tried to provide the reader with the basic concepts necessary to understand the continuing debate over the place of language in education. Most importantly, perhaps, it has tried to illustrate how various researchers have begun to investigate how language is used in schools and classrooms. Rather than summarize the argument, I will devote this last chapter to listing some topics which readers could now go on to study for themselves. Suggesting topics for investigation will also point to many aspects of language which this book has not dealt with, largely because we know very little about them.
