The Linguistic Challenge of the Transition to Secondary School : Routledge : 9780367534219 : 0367534215 : 30 Dec 2022 : This book provides a unique analysis and description of the linguistic challenges faced by school students as they move from primary to secondary school, a major transition, which some students struggle with emotionally and academically. The study: ? draws on a bespoke corpus of 2.5 million words of written materials and transcribed classroom recordings, provided by the project's partner schools; ? combines quantitative and qualitative approaches to the corpus data to explore linguistic variation across school levels, registers and subjects; ? describes the procedures of corpus compilation and analysis of written and spoken academic language, showing how modern corpus tools can be applied to this far-reaching social and educational issue; ? uncovers differences and similarities between the academic language that school children are exposed to at primary and second