Description
Book SynopsisThis book provides a unique analysis and description of the linguistic challenges faced by school students as they move from primary to secondary school, a major transition, which some students struggle with emotionally and academically. The study:
draws on a bespoke corpus of 2.5 million words of written materials and transcribed classroom recordings, provided by the project''s partner schools;
combines quantitative and qualitative approaches to the corpus data to explore linguistic variation across school levels, registers and subjects;
describes the procedures of corpus compilation and analysis of written and spoken academic language, showing how modern corpus tools can be applied to this far-reaching social and educational issue;
uncovers differences and similarities between the academic language that school children are exposed to at primary and secondary school, contrasting this against the backdrop of the non-academic language that they encounter o
