School discourse : learning to write across the years of schooling / Frances Christie, Beverly Derewianka.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Christie, Frances.

Contributor:

Derewianka, Beverly.

Series:

Continuum discourse series.

Continuum discourse series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--Language.

Children.

English language--Written English--Study and teaching.

English language.

Language and education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book tracks the developmental changes in writing across the schools curriculum, enhancing a key area of research in applied linguistics. Writing development has been a key area of research in applied linguistics for some time, but most work has focused on children's writing at particular ages. Christie and Derewianka draw on extensive research in both primary and secondary years to trace the developmental trajectory from age 5 or 6 through to 18. Using a systemic functional grammar, they outline developmental changes in writing in three major areas of the school curriculum - English, hist

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgements; Notations; 1. A Functional Approach to Writing Development; 2. Writing Stories in Subject English; 3. Writing to Respond to and Evaluate Other Texts; 4. Reconstructing the Past: Recording and Describing Historical Events; 5. Reviewing the Past: Interpreting, Explaining, Arguing and Debating Historical Events; 6. Observing and Writing about the Natural World; 7. Interpreting Phenomena of the Natural World; 8. The Developmental Trajectory in Writing; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-27174-5

9786613271747

1-4411-3220-1

OCLC:

747503595