Language and Literacy: Functional Approaches - Softcover

Rachel Whittaker

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847065708 ISBN 13: 9781847065704

Publisher: Continuum, 2008

Synopsis

This volume examines the relationship between language and literacy from a systemic functional perspective. The book starts with a retrospective view on the development of language education practices, written by eminent linguistics Michael Halliday and Ruqaiya Hasan, and then shows how this approach is implemented today. The second section presents a detailed analysis of how considerations of literacy education are approached in educational systems around the world. 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, including history, literature, science and student writing. The essays collected here present a comprehensive analysis of language and literacy from a systemic functional perspective, written by academics at the forefront of the field. It will be of interest to researchers in systemic functional linguistics, or language and education.

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About the Authors

Rachel Whittaker is Lecturer in the Department of English at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain.

Anne McCabe is a full-time professor in the Department of English and Communication, Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus.

Mick O'Donnell is Lecturer in the Department of Informatics at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain.

Edition details

• Publisher: Continuum
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1847065708
• ISBN 13: 9781847065704
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 314
• Editor: Rachel Whittaker