Researching language in schools and communities : functional linguistic perspectives / edited by Len Unsworth.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Unsworth, Len.

Series:

Open linguistics series.

Open linguistics series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Linguistics--Research.

Linguistics.

Functionalism (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Washington : Cassell, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Researching Language in Schools and Communities is designed for those who intend to carry out and / or study research in children's language development, teaching English as a second language, children's literature, casual conversation, social class and language variation, classroom discourse, reading processes, teaching writing, literacy and curriculum area learning, critical literacies and related areas. The contributors are among the foremost researchers in these fields. In this book they introduce approaches to help investigate such areas in applied language research using systemic

Contents:

Contents; Contributors; Introduction; Acknowledgements; 1 Developing socially responsible language research; 2 Getting started with functional analysis of texts; 3 Researching first language development in children; 4 Researching second and foreign language development; 5 Children's literature, children and uses of language description; 6 Researching everyday talk; 7 Socio-semantic variation: different wordings, different meanings; 8 The language of classroom interaction and learning; 9 Exploring reading processes; 10 Interpreting literature: the role of APPRAISAL

11 Investigating subject-specific literacies in school learning12 Close reading: functional linguistics as a tool for critical discourse analysis; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611294656

9781281294654

1281294659

9781847140913

1847140912

OCLC:

568434652