Language and Literacy Functional Approaches

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

• ISBN13: 9781847065704
• ISBN10: 1847065708
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-02-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

This volume examines the relationship between language and literacy from a systemic functional perspective. The book starts with a retrospective view of the development of systemic functional linguistics hand-in-hand with language education practices, written by eminent linguists Michael Halliday and Ruqaiya Hasan, and then shows how this approach has developed, and informed subsequent language education policy and theory. The second section presents examples of how considerations of literacy education are carried out in educational systems around the world based on systemic functional linguistics. The contributors examine issues such as metadiscourse, genre, cultural politics, and how systemic functional grammar can help to raise literacy standards. The final section looks at literacy in more specific disciplines at school and university, including history, literature, and student writing.

Author Biography

Rachel Whittaker is Lecturer in the Department of English at the Universidad Autnoma de Madrid, Spain. Mick O'Donnell is Research Fellow in the Department of Informatics at the Universidad Autnoma de Madrid, Spain. Anne McCabe is Assistant Professor and Head of ESL in the Department of English and Communication at Saint Louis University, Madrid, Spain.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Development of the SFL Literacy Approach	p. 13
Language and literacy	p. 15
Literacy teaching and current debates over reading	p. 45
The Write it Right project - Linguistic modelling of secondary school and the workplace	p. 66
SFL Approaches to Literacy in Educational Systems around the World	p. 93
Metadiscourse: designing interaction in genre-based literacy programmes	p. 95
Towards a pedagogical grammar	p. 123
Whole-school genre maps: a case study in South Australia	p. 144
The impact of genre theory and pedagogy and systemic functional linguistics on National Literacy Strategies in the UK	p. 159
Language, literacy and cultural politics: the debate on the new language curriculum in Portugal	p. 177
Implementing the genre approach in a South African school	p. 189
SFL Approaches to Literacy across Disciplines	p. 205
Reconstruing 'personal time' as 'collective time': learning the discourse of history	p. 207
Exploring a novel through engagement with its grammatical form: perspectives for a primary/middle school classroom	p. 233
Guiding senior secondary students towards writing academically-valued responses to poetry	p. 251
Emergent disciplinary: a comparative study of Theme in undergraduate essays in geography and history of science	p. 266
Index of Terms	p. 285
Index of Names	p. 291
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