Overview

The title is divided into two sections. Part one covers early childhood and the growing development of a language system from the basic semiotic system of the infant, this is followed by an analysis of the beginnings of literacy in kindergarten, the introduction to writing in primary school and the ideological content of reading material. Part two furthers this analysis by looking at discourse in secondary and tertiary education. The contributors pose questions about the role and importance of teaching grammar in the school system, and finally examine how to refine the discourse of education.

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Author:   Joseph A. Foley
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.667kg
ISBN:  

9780826461872

ISBN 10:   0826461875
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   29 April 2004
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

Table of Contents

Part I Childhood and the Growing Development of Discourse: Representing the Child as a Semiotic Being (One Who Means), M.A.K. Halliday; Reading Picture Reading - A Study in Ideology and Inference, Ruqaiya Hasan; Learning Language - Learning Culture in Singapore, Linda Thompson; A Framework for Tracing the Development of Children's Writing in Primary Schools, Joseph A. Foley and Cheryl Lee; An Analysis of a Children's History Text, Bridget Goom. Part 2 Discourse in Secondary and Tertiary Levels of Education, Revisiting Some Old Themes: The Role of Grammar in the Teaching of English, Frances Christie; What Should We Teach about the Paradoxes of English Nominalisation? Carolyn G. Hartnett; Discourse in Secondary School Mathematics Classrooms According to Social Class and Gender, Kay O'Halloran; Teaching Radha to (Re-) Write - Authority, Positioning, Discourse, Anneliese Kramer-Dahl; The Evaluation of Causal Discourse and Language as a Resource for Meaning, Bernard Mohan and Tammy Slater; Sense and Sensibility - Texturing Evaluation, J.R. Martin; On the Preferential Co-Occurence of Processes and Circumstantial Adjuncts - Some Corpus Evidence, Fiona C. Ball and Gordon Tucker.

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Joseph Foley, is a Language Specialist with the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organisation, Regional Language Centre in Singapore. For over 20 years he taught in the Department of English Language and Literature at the National University of Singapore.

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