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Academic Literacies in the Middle Years: A Framework for Enhancing Teacher Knowledge and Student Achievement book cover

1st Edition

Academic Literacies in the Middle Years A Framework for Enhancing Teacher Knowledge and Student Achievement

By Sally Humphrey Copyright 2017
274 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

274 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

274 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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The professional learning framework this book presents is designed to support teachers’ understandings of how language functions in their academic disciplines. This framework—a 4 x 4 metalinguistic toolkit—is informed by systemic functional linguistic theory and international educational research on academic and disciplinary literacies. The book shows and explains how teachers have applied... Read more

Preface

Acknowledgements

1 The Context of Middle Years Literacy Research

2 Design and Foundations of a Metalanguage Framework

3 Designing Literacy interventions

4 Exploring Narratives as Prose and Drama Script

5 Writing Responses to Analyse Cultural Works

6 Factorial Explanations in History, Science and the Social Sciences

7 Persuading Audiences in the Academic Domain

8 Persuasion for Civic Purposes

9 Towards Design Principles for Middle Years Literacies

Index

Biography

Sally Humphrey is Senior Lecturer, English and Literacies Education, Australian Catholic University, Australia.

"This book provides essential content for teacher preparation to support students as they cope with texts in the various content areas. It provides the foundation to learn the language students need to function in school, especially under the current pressure to emphasize academic literacy. Without the emphasis on language, schools will not succeed in supporting students achieve in disciplinary literacies."

Maria Brisk, Boston College, USA

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