Language and Literacy

Dr Rachel Whittaker is Lecturer at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain. Dr Mick O'Donnell is Research Fellow at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain. Dr Anne McCabe is Assistant Professor at Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus, Spain, where she is Head of the ESL programme.

• Introduction; Part I: Development of the SFL Literacy Approach; 1. Retrospective on literacy - Michael Halliday and Ruqaiya Hasan; 2. The 'Write it Right' project - Robert Veel; 3. Literacy and current debates over reading - Frances Christie; Part II: Approaches to literacy in educational systems around the world; 4. Metadiscourse: meaning, consciousness and literacy learning - J.R. Martin; 5. Applying SFG in the classroom - John Polias and Brian Dare; 6. Whole school genre maps - Bronwyn Custance; 7. Introducing the genre approach in South African classrooms - Carol Thomson and Mike Hart; 8. Functional grammar and literacy standards in UK schools - Paddy Walsh; 9. The debate on the new language curriculum in Portugal - Carlos Gouveia; Part III: Literacy across specific disciplines. 10. Learning the discourse of history - Caroline Coffin; 11. Exploring a novel through engagement with its grammatical form - Lorraine McDonald; 12. The language of secondary school science - Brian Donovan; 13. Affective and effective response to literary works in the senior school - Susan Marshall; 14. Key indicators of development in adolescent writing - Beverly Derewianka; 15. The use of theme as a textual organiser in undergraduate essays - Ann Hewings and Sarah North.

mention- Book News Inc./ August 2007