Language and Literacy

Functional Approaches
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8264-8947-0
Verlag: Continnuum-3PL

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 625 g

Explores cutting-edge approaches to literacy across cultures, contexts and disciplines

- Contributions from major names such as Halliday, Hasan, Martin and Christie
- Deals with current debates surrounding literacy
- Offers practical ways forward based on linguistic theory and case studies.

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.

Zielgruppe

Researchers in language and education, Academics interested in Systemic Functional Linguistics

Autoren/Hrsg.

Whittaker, Rachel

O'Donnell, Mick

McCabe, Anne

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Textlinguistik, Diskursanalyse, Stilistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sprachsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.