Languages, Education and Science: Future Needs

Abstract

This final lecture is more in the nature of an orientation, aligning the motifs in such a way as to say something about the direction in which our enquiries and our efforts in language education might seem to be going. I have been looking at learning, including (though not restricted to) learning in the sense of education, or ‘becoming educated’, as a linguistic kind of process, and I have been trying to see it from the point of view of the learners, taking account of the languages that they meet with, and have to master, along the way, and of the resources that they bring to the task at each new step.