Advances in Language and Education
Published on 17. September 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-0-8264-3319-0 (ISBN)
Description
This book examines new functional approaches to language and education, and the impact of these on literacy in the classroom. The first section looks at issues of multimodality, in which the definition of a text is expanded to include not only that which is written down, but also the interaction of writing, graphics, and audiovisual material. The contributors explore ways in which language education can be expanded to deal with multimodal discourse, whether in children's books, in textbooks, or on the web.The second section looks at how critical discourse analysis and appraisal theory can be used as tools for assessing the effectiveness of student writing and literacy achievement, and also for helping developing writers to write more successfully. The final section argues that corpus-based studies of language have changed the way we see language, and that the way we teach language should evolve in line with these changes. This appealing survey of new directions in language and education includes contributions from internationally renowned scholars. It will be of interest to researchers in systemic functional linguistics, or language and education.
Reviews / Votes
"Demonstates that researchers have made important developments in the understanding of language and meaning production. Its primary audience might be that of the language research community of practice, the book is recommended for all those researchers worried about increasing the dialogue between knowledge about the way we learn, produce, and distribute texts through our pedagogical practices in our highly multimodal contemporary society." Discourse and SocietyMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
439 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8264-3319-0 (9780826433190)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Anne McCabe | Mick O'Donnell | Rachel Whittaker
Advances in Language and Education
E-Book
07/2007
1st Edition
Continuum Publishing Corporation
€71.99
Available for download
Persons
Anne McCabe is Assistant Professor and Head of ESL in the Department of English and Communication at Saint Louis University, Madrid, Spain. Mick O'Donnell is Research Fellow in the Department of Informatics at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain. Rachel Whittaker is Lecturer in the Department of English at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain.
Content
1. An introduction to language and literacy, Rachel Whittaker, Anne McCabe and Mick O'Donnell; Part I: Multimodality and Education; 2. Meaning, learning and representation in a Social Semiotic approach to Multimodal Communication, Gunther Kress; 3. Children's picture book narratives. reading sequences of images, Clare Painter; 4. Popular culture in the classroom: interpreting and creating multimodal texts, Katina Zammit; 5. Systemic Functional Multimodal Discourse Analysis approach to mathematics, grammar and literacy, Kay O'Halloran; 6. Multiliteracies for academic purposes: multimodality in textbook and computer-based learning materials in science at university, Janet Jones; Part II: Discourse Analysis and Education; 7. Applying a Critical Systemic-Functional Literacy Frame in a UK secondary education context, David Hyatt; 8. Using Appraisal Theory to track interpersonal development in adolescent academic writing, Beverly Derewianka; 9. Constructing an effective 'voice' in academic discussion writing: an appraisal theory perspective, Elizabeth Swain; 10. Arguing in and across disciplinary boundaries: legitimising strategies in applied linguistics and cultural studies, Susan Hood; 11. On the 'internal dialogue' between an examination task and pre-university students' responses, Bodil Hedeboe; 12. A discourse analytical study of decontextualization and literacy, Inger Lassen; Part III: Corpus Linguistics and Education; 13. Exposure, expectations and probabilities: implications for language learning, Gordon Tucker; 14. Grammar patterns and literacy, Susan Hunston.