Language, Education and Discourse
Functional Approaches
1st Edition
Published on 29. April 2004
352 pages
978-1-84714-101-9 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of essays by leading functional linguists presents the latest perspectives on language and discourse in educational settings.
Language, Education and Discourse 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. This book will be useful to academics interested in the latest functional perspectives on language and education.
Language, Education and Discourse 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. This book will be useful to academics interested in the latest functional perspectives on language and education.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-84714-101-9 (9781847141019)
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Tables
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- PART ONE: CHILDHOOD AND THE GROWING DEVELOPMENT OF DISCOURSE
- 2 Representing the Child as a Semiotic Being (One Who Means)
- 3 Reading Picture Reading: A Study in Ideology and Inference
- 4 Learning Language: Learning Culture in Singapore
- 5 A Framework for Tracing the Development of Children's Writing in Primary Schools
- 6 An Analysis of a Children's History Text
- PART TWO: DISCOURSE IN SECONDARY AND TERTIARY LEVELS OF EDUCATION
- 7 Revisiting Some Old Themes: The Role of Grammar in the Teaching of English
- 8 What Should We Teach about the Paradoxes of English Nominalization?
- 9 Discourses in Secondary School Mathematics Classrooms According to Social Class and Gender
- 10 Teaching Radha to (Re-)Write: Authority, Positioning, Discourse
- 11 The Evaluation of Causal Discourse and Language as a Resource for Meaning
- 12 Sense and Sensibility: Texturing Evaluation
- 13 On the Preferential Co-occurrence of Processes and Circumstantial Adjuncts: Some Corpus Evidence
- Index
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