Advances in Language and Education

Author:   Dr. Anne McCabe ,  Dr. Mick O'Donnell ,  Dr. Rachel Whittaker
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:  

9780826489609


Pages:   272
Publication Date:   19 July 2007
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Dr. Anne McCabe ,  Dr. Mick O'Donnell ,  Dr. Rachel Whittaker
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.560kg
ISBN:  

9780826489609


ISBN 10:   0826489605
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   19 July 2007
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

1. An introduction to language and literacy, Rachel Whittaker, Anne McCabe and Mick O'Donnell Part I: Multimodality and Education 2. Meaning, learning and representation in a Social Semiotic approach to Multimodal Communication, Gunther Kress 3. Children's picture book narratives. reading sequences of images, Clare Painter 4. Popular culture in the classroom: interpreting and creating multimodal texts, Katina Zammit 5. Systemic Functional Multimodal Discourse Analysis approach to mathematics, grammar and literacy, Kay O'Halloran 6. Multiliteracies for academic purposes: multimodality in textbook and computer-based learning materials in science at university, Janet Jones Part II: Discourse Analysis and Education 7. Applying a Critical Systemic-Functional Literacy Frame in a UK secondary education context, David Hyatt 8. Using Appraisal Theory to track interpersonal development in adolescent academic writing, Beverly Derewianka 9. Constructing an effective 'voice' in academic discussion writing: an appraisal theory perspective, Elizabeth Swain 10. Arguing in and across disciplinary boundaries: legitimising strategies in applied linguistics and cultural studies, Susan Hood 11. On the 'internal dialogue' between an examination task and pre-university students' responses, Bodil Hedeboe 12. A discourse analytical study of decontextualization and literacy, Inger Lassen Part III: Corpus Linguistics and Education 13. Exposure, expectations and probabilities: implications for language learning, Gordon Tucker 14. Grammar patterns and literacy, Susan Hunston

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Demonstates that researchers have made important developments in the understanding of language and meaning production. Its primary audience might be that of the language research community of practice, the book is recommended for all those researchers worried about increasing the dialogue between knowledge about the way we learn, produce, and distribute texts through our pedagogical practices in our highly multimodal contemporary society. Discourse and Society


Demonstates that researchers have made important developments in the understanding of language and meaning production. Its primary audience might be that of the language research community of practice, the book is recommended for all those researchers worried about increasing the dialogue between knowledge about the way we learn, produce, and distribute texts through our pedagogical practices in our highly multimodal contemporary society. Discourse and Society


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

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