This book draws on original research and a language based pedagogy approach to examine how secondary schools in the UK can devise and implement coherent language and literacy across curriculum policies and strategies, so that grammar and associated metalanguage becomes an integral part of their day to day curriculum practices.
Urszula Clark is Professor of English and Linguistics at Aston University, Birmingham, UK.
Chapter 1. Introduction: Language and Literacy across the Curriculum.- Chapter 2. Language, Literacy and Pedagogy.- Chapter 3. Devising and Implementing Whole School Literacy across the Curriculum (LAC) strategies in the 11 to 19 Secondary School Curriculum.- Chapter 4. Developing Literacy across the Curriculum for Subject English.- Chapter 5. Developing Literacy across the Curriculum for the Humanities: RE, History and Geography.- Chapter 6. Developing Literacy across the Curriculum for the Sciences and Mathematics.- Chapter 7. Conclusion.
“Developing language and literary in English across the secondary school curriculum provides the educational context for which an SFL-based approach is designed to help learners achieve the first type of critical understanding. … [This book] show the incredible reach and potential of SFL-based pedagogies. … the books show a high sensitivity to teachers’ beliefs, needs and realities.” (Anne McCabe, Language, Context and Text, Vol. 4 (1), 2022)
Urszula Clark, Esther Asprey, Aston University) Clark, Urszula (Reader in English and Associate Dean of Languages and Social Sciences Postgraduate Programmes, Aston University) Asprey, Esther (Research Assistant
Urszula Clark, Esther Asprey, Aston University) Clark, Urszula (Reader in English and Associate Dean of Languages and Social Sciences Postgraduate Programmes, Aston University) Asprey, Esther (Research Assistant