Wording/Outline/Orientation/Views of language

If we're here to think about language and how it works, it will probably help to stop and consider for a moment what 'language' is. That might seem a strange suggestion, it may seem obvious to you what language is, but then again...

Linguistics, the study of language, is not a unified field - there are very different schools of thought around the question of what language is and how it works, how it's best described, and how languages are best taught and learned...

The theory of language we draw on has a big influence on the way we design educational programs and approach learning a language.

position, design, choices