This volume offers a comprehensive account of language development from a systemic functional linguistic (SFL) perspective, integrating theory and data from a wide range of research studies.

Anne McCabe teaches linguistics and academic writing in the English Department at Saint Louis University - Madrid Campus. She has published numerous book chapters and articles using a functional linguistics perspective applied to language development. She co-edited Language and Literacy: Functional Approaches and Advances in Language and Education.

CHAPTER 1 Developing language: A functional linguistic perspective

CHAPTER 2 Developing language from infancy

CHAPTER 3 Developing language through school

CHAPTER 4 Developing additional languages

CHAPTER 5 Developing theory, pedagogy, and research