Chapter 1: Language as a resource with which to structure and organise experience and meaning. - Chapter 2: Identifying the overall pattern, form and structure in Texts 1 and 2. - Chapter 3: Language, ideology, culture and schooling. - Chapter 4: Writing and schooling. - Chapter 5: Some written genres by young writers.

Language education concentrates on the significance of language in personal development and in learning. It also focuses on how people structure and organize their lives in terms of shaping their experience and expanding their knowledge and understanding of the world. Interpretation and communication of ideas through language can be seen as essential to successful participation in any given society.