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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Information

Publisher

Continuum

Year

2006

ISBN

9781441119940

Edition

Topic

Languages & Linguistics

Subtopic

Literacy

Index

Languages & Linguistics

Contents
List of Contributors
Preface
An introduction to language and literacy
Part One: Development of the SFL Literacy Approach
Part Two: SFL Approaches to Literacy in Educational Systems around the World
Part Three: SFL Approaches to Literacy across Disciplines
Index of Terms
Index of Names