Advances in Language and Education
Published on 19. July 2007
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-0-8264-8960-9 (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 explores 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 appealling 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
Academics
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
596 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8264-8960-9 (9780826489609)
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Persons
Dr Rachel Whittaker is a lecturer at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain. Dr Mick O'Donnell is a Research Fellow at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain. Dr Anne McCabe is an Assistant Professor at Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus, Spain where she is Head of the ESL programme.
Content
Introduction; Part I: Defining Multimodality; 1. 'Writing' or 'Text': thinking around 'Literacy' in contemporary representation and communication Gunther Kress; 2. Language and other semiotic systems in the organization of the written page Christian Matthiessen; 3. Muiltimodality, multimediality and multiliteracies - a new era for the press Eija Ventola; Part II: Multimodality and Education; 4. Children's picture book narratives Clare Painter; 5. Popular culture in the classroom Katina Zammit; 6. Multiliteracies for academic purposes Janet Jones; 7. Literacy, grammar and mathematics Kay O'Halloran; Part III: Literacy and New Approaches in Discourse Analysis; 8. Applying critical discourse analysis to literacy David Hyatt; 9. A study of decontextualization and literacy Inger Lassen. 10. Applying appraisal theory to literacy: propagating values in academic writing Susan Hood; 11. Appraisal in expository texts Elizabeth Swain; Part IV: Corpus Analysis and Literacy; 12. Views from corpus analysis: on the notion of expectation in language learning Gordon Tucker; 13. Corpora, pattern grammars and language education Susan Hunston; Part V: Literacy in a Multilingual World; 14. Language contact and multilinguality Erich Steiner.