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RESEARCHING LANGUAGE IN SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES IBD

CONTINNUUM-3PL
11 / 2005
9780826478719
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Sinopsis

Researching Language in Schools and Communities is designed for those who intend to carryout and/or study research in children?s language development, teaching English as a secondlanguage, children?s literature, casual conversation, social class and language variation, classroomdiscourse, reading processes, teaching writing, literacy and curriculum area learning,critical literacies and related areas. The contributors are among the foremost researchers inthese fields. In this book they introduce approaches to help investigate such areas in appliedlanguage research using systemic functional linguistics (SFL). A key purpose of this text isto facilitate the further engagement of language researchers with SFL perspectives, encouragingmore collaborative transdisciplinary work across different fields of study and theoreticalapproaches in projects of mutual concern.The first two chapters outline the key aspects of SFL descriptions of the relationshipsbetween language and social context and the inter-related descriptions of text structures andgrammatical systems. This provides sufficient background to enable those coming new to SFLto make productive, critical use of the research reviewed, studies described and advice onproject design provided in the following chapters. Nevertheless, the book is an introductoryresource and particular attention has been paid throughout to the extensive provision of clearreferences to more elaborated accounts of the important issues discussed.Len Unsworth is Professor in English and Literacies Education at the University of NewEngland, Australia.

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