Advances in Language and Education

by McCabe, Anne; O'Donnell, Mick; Whittaker, Rachel

• ISBN13: 9780826433190
• ISBN10: 0826433197
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-11-17
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Anne McCabe is a full-time Professor in the Department of English and Communication, Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus. Mick O'Donnell and Rachel Whittaker are lecturers in the Department of English at the Universidad Autnoma de Madrid, Spain.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Introduction: Responses to the changing face of language education	p. 1
Multimodality and Education
Meaning, Learning and Representation in a Social Semiotic Approach to Multimodal Communication	p. 15
Children's Picture Book Narratives: Reading Sequences of Images	p. 40
Popular Culture in the Classroom: Interpreting and Creating Multimodal Texts	p. 60
Systemic Functional Multimodal Discourse Analysis (SF-MDA) Approach to Mathematics, Grammar and Literacy	p. 77
Multiliteracies for Academic Purposes: Multimodality in Textbook and Computer-based Learning Materials in Science at University	p. 103
Discourse Analysis and Education
Applying a Critical Systemic-Functional Literacy Frame in UK Secondary Education Context	p. 125
Using Appraisal Theory to Track Interpersonal Development in Adolescent Academic Writing	p. 142
Constructing an Effective 'VoiceÆ in Academic Discussion Writing: An Appraisal Theory Perspective	p. 166
Arguing In and Across Disciplinary Boundaries: Legitimizing Strategies in Applied Linguistics and Cultural Studies	p. 185
On the 'Internal DialogueÆ between an Examination Task and Pre-University Students' Responses	p. 201
A Discourse Analytical Study of Decontextualization and Literacy	p. 217
Corpus Linguistics and Education
Exposure, Expectations and Probabilities: Implications for Language Learning	p. 239
Grammar Patterns and Literacy	p. 254
Index	p. 268
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