Language and Literacy

Functional Approaches

Inbunden, Engelska, 2006

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Beskrivning

This volume examines the relationship between language and literacy from a systemic functional perspective. The book starts with a retrospective view on the development of systemic functional linguistics hand-in-hand with language education practices, written by eminent linguists Michael Halliday and Ruqaiya Hasan, and then shows how this approach has developed, and informed language education policy and theory. The second section presents examples of how considerations of literacy education are carried out in educational systems around the world based on systemic functional linguistics. The contributors examine issues such as metadiscourse, genre, cultural politics, and how systemic functional grammar can help to raise literacy standards. The final section looks at literacy in more specific disciplines at school and university, including history, literature, and student writing. The essays collected here present a comprehensive analysis of language and literacy from a systemic functional perspective, written by academics at the forefront of the field. It will be of interest to researchers in systemic functional linguistics, or language and education.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2006-12-08
Mått:156 x 234 x 21 mm
Vikt:600 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:306
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9780826489470

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Språkvetenskap och lingvistik inom Språk och ordböcker

Mer om författaren

Dr Rachel Whittaker is Lecturer at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain. Dr Mick O'Donnell is Research Fellow at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain. Dr Anne McCabe is Assistant Professor at Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus, Spain, where she is Head of the ESL programme.

Recensioner i media

mention- Book News Inc./ August 2007

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction; Part I: Development of the SFL Literacy Approach; 1. Retrospective on literacy - Michael Halliday and Ruqaiya Hasan; 2. The 'Write it Right' project - Robert Veel; 3. Literacy and current debates over reading - Frances Christie; Part II: Approaches to literacy in educational systems around the world; 4. Metadiscourse: meaning, consciousness and literacy learning - J.R. Martin; 5. Applying SFG in the classroom - John Polias and Brian Dare; 6. Whole school genre maps - Bronwyn Custance; 7. Introducing the genre approach in South African classrooms - Carol Thomson and Mike Hart; 8. Functional grammar and literacy standards in UK schools - Paddy Walsh; 9. The debate on the new language curriculum in Portugal - Carlos Gouveia; Part III: Literacy across specific disciplines. 10. Learning the discourse of history - Caroline Coffin; 11. Exploring a novel through engagement with its grammatical form - Lorraine McDonald; 12. The language of secondary school science - Brian Donovan; 13. Affective and effective response to literary works in the senior school - Susan Marshall; 14. Key indicators of development in adolescent writing - Beverly Derewianka; 15. The use of theme as a textual organiser in undergraduate essays - Ann Hewings and Sarah North.