Language, Education and Discourse
Functional Approaches
Published on 29. April 2004
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-8264-6187-2 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of essays by functional linguists presents perspectives on language and discourse in educational settings. The text questions the idea of "discourse" to reveal that the social processes of learning are imbued with the ideologies of the society and education system within which learning takes place. The contributors take into account the historical and cross-cultural perspectives of both classroom practices and the student's own awareness of the ideological meanings of language activities. The title is divided into two sections. Part one covers early childhood and the growing development of a language system from the basic semiotic system of the infant, this is followed by an analysis of the beginnings of literacy in kindergarten, the introduction to writing in primary school and the ideological content of reading material. Part two furthers this analysis by looking at discourse in secondary and tertiary education. The contributors pose questions about the role and importance of teaching grammar in the school system, and finally examine how to refine the discourse of education.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Illustrations
39 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8264-6187-2 (9780826461872)
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04/2004
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Content
Part I Childhood and the Growing Development of Discourse: Representing the Child as a Semiotic Being (One Who Means), M.A.K. Halliday; Reading Picture Reading - A Study in Ideology and Inference, Ruqaiya Hasan; Learning Language - Learning Culture in Singapore, Linda Thompson; A Framework for Tracing the Development of Children's Writing in Primary Schools, Joseph A. Foley and Cheryl Lee; An Analysis of a Children's History Text, Bridget Goom. Part 2 Discourse in Secondary and Tertiary Levels of Education, Revisiting Some Old Themes: The Role of Grammar in the Teaching of English, Frances Christie; What Should We Teach about the Paradoxes of English Nominalisation? Carolyn G. Hartnett; Discourse in Secondary School Mathematics Classrooms According to Social Class and Gender, Kay O'Halloran; Teaching Radha to (Re-) Write - Authority, Positioning, Discourse, Anneliese Kramer-Dahl; The Evaluation of Causal Discourse and Language as a Resource for Meaning, Bernard Mohan and Tammy Slater; Sense and Sensibility - Texturing Evaluation, J.R. Martin; On the Preferential Co-Occurence of Processes and Circumstantial Adjuncts - Some Corpus Evidence, Fiona C. Ball and Gordon Tucker.