Contexts for language learning
semiotic perspectives
pp. 97-106
in: John Deely, Margot D. Lenhart (eds), Semiotics 1981, Berlin, Springer, 1983Abstract
Semiotics, or at least the analytic perspective afforded by a semiotic approach, has begun to have an appreciable impact on pedagogy at a variety of levels. Perhaps the most obvious impact has been felt in the relatively broad area of language education, by which I mean those areas of the curriculum in which a focus on language and linguistic interaction is especially productive. These would include research, theory, and praxis associated with reading, writing, foreign and native language instruction and the grayer areas of the contemporary curriculum such as reading instruction in and through the various traditional disciplines.