Social Class Language and Education

Table of Contents

I Social Class and Educational Opportunity: the demographic evidence II Motivation, Sub-culture and Educability III Empirical Evidence on the Relation between Language and Social Background IV Language and Thought V A Critique of Bernstein’s Work on Language and Social Class VI An Experimental Study of the Speech and Writing of some Middle- and Working-class Boys VII Some Proposed Intervention Programmes in the U.S.A. and Great Britain VIII Conclusion