Volume: 19  Number: 2  Page: 141–146

Applied Linguistics and Mathematics Education: More than Words and Numbers

Richard Barwell, Constant Leung, Candia Morgan and Brian Street University of Bristol; King’s College London; Institute of Education; King’s College London, UK

The preceding set of papers has explored various aspects of the role of language in mathematics education. The papers reflect the work of individual contributors. An important part of our collaboration, however, has been the conversation between us. This paper reflects on aspects of that conversation, as we draw together some of the themes that have emerged during our work. In particular, we discuss some of the implications of our analyses for theory, policy, practice and inter-disciplinarity in mathematics education and applied linguistics.

Keywords: mathematics education, classroom discourse, primary school education, educational policy, research methodology, interdisciplinarity

© 2005 R. Barwell et al.

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