McCabe Anne, Whittaker Rachel, O'Donnell Mick. Advances in Language and Education

Continuum, 2007. — 311 p. — (Continuum Studies in Linguistics). — ISBN 0826489605, 9780826489609, 0826433197, 9780826433190.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 explores 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. This appealling survey of new directions in language and education includes contributions from internationally renowned scholars. It will be of interest to researchers in systemic functional linguistics, or language and education.Introduction: Responses to the changing face of language education
Rachel Whittaker, Mick O’Donnell and Anne McCabe
Multimodality and Education
Meaning, Learning and Representation in a Social Semiotic Approach to Multimodal Communication
Gunther Kress
Children’s Picture Book Narratives: Reading Sequences of Images
Clare Painter
Popular Culture in the Classroom: Interpreting and Creating
Multimodal Texts
Katina Zammit
Systemic Functional Multimodal Discourse Analysis (SF–MDA)
Approach to Mathematics, Grammar and Literacy
Kay L. O’Halloran
Multiliteracies for Academic Purposes: Multimodality in Textbook and Computer-based Learning Materials in Science at University
Janet Jones
Discourse Analysis and Education
Applying a Critical Systemic-Functional Literacy Frame in a UK Secondary Education Context
David F. Hyatt
Using Appraisal Theory to Track Interpersonal Development in Adolescent Academic Writing
Beverly Derewianka
Constructing an Effective ‘Voice’ in Academic Discussion Writing: An Appraisal Theory Perspective
Elizabeth Swain
Arguing In and Across Disciplinary Boundaries: Legitimizing Strategies in Applied Linguistics and Cultural Studies
Susan Hood On the ‘Internal Dialogue’ between an Examination Task and
Pre-University Students’ Responses
Bodil Hedeboe
A Discourse Analytical Study of Decontextualization and Literacy
Inger Lassen
Corpus Linguistics and Education
Exposure, Expectations and Probabilities: Implications for Language Learning
Gordon Tucker
Grammar Patterns and Literacy
Susan Hunston