The contribution of linguistics to education
Areas in which Linguistics has been seen to contribute to understanding the total education process, beyond teaching methodology, include the following:
the relationship between language and cognition;
the role of language as a socialising agent within educational institutions;
the relationship between language in the educational institution and the wider community;
the role of language in general educational policy, in relation to (for example) national and international literacy policies, language in development, and language as a marker of local, regional, national and wider identities;
language and its relationship to power structures and the manipulation of communicative strategies by those with power.