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Language in Education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2015

Lawrence Moser
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Language is a way of communicating between people by the use of symbols, signs, writing and oral speech. Language is used in different ways in different communities, countries and cultures throughout the world. Lindfors (1980, p.43) suggests that language consists of three major components: Semantic, Syntatic and Phonological.

Language is seen as being acquired by human beings through their own interaction with the environment that surrounds them. Human beings are able to build an overview of their language through personal experience, and also a cognitive structure developed from their world view.

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Research Article
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The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , March 1989 , pp. 28 - 40
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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