Teaching and Researching ELLs' Disciplinary Literacies

Teaching and Researching ELLs' Disciplinary Literacies

Systemic Functional Linguistics in Action in the Context of U.S. School Reform

Gebhard, Meg

Taylor & Francis Ltd

02/2019

282

Dura

Inglês

9781138090897

15 a 20 dias

544

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Acknowledgements

1 Teaching and researching ELLs' disciplinary literacy development in hard times: A critical perspective

Rationale: The making of a "perfect storm"

My literacy biography: Learning (and not learning) to become a critical reader, writer, and thinker

A critical approach to understanding language, learning, and social change in U.S. public schools

Overview of chapters

Praxis

2 Celine's questions: Race, immigration, and literacy development in schools

Celine's literacy practices: A case study

Crossing linguistic, cultural, and institutional boundaries in schools

Text/context dynamics

Celine's educational background

Mr. Banks' feedback

Rethinking the word "grammar" from an SFL perspective

Summary

Praxis

3 Skinner, Chomsky, and Halliday: Shifting conceptions of grammar and language learning

Skinner: A behavioral perspective

Chomsky: A psycholinguistic perspective

Halliday: A social semiotic perspective

Summary and critique of different perspectives of grammar and approaches to language teaching and learning in schools

Praxis

4 Genres, registers, and the teaching and learning cycle

Text/context dynamics: Analyzing email requests sent to a professor

SFL, genres, and registers

SFL in action: The teaching and learning cycle in K-12 schools

The teaching and learning cycle and Martin's genre theory

SFL, genre theory, and the TLC in the context of U.S. school reforms

ACCELA's approach to the TLC

Summary

Praxis

5 Registers: Critically analyzing field, tenor, and mode choices

Field: Constructing content, ideas, and experiences

Tenor: Constructing voice, social roles, and power dynamics

Mode: Managing the flow of information

Summary

Praxis

6 Policies and practices to support ELLs' disciplinary literacy development: A civil rights perspective

Twenty-first century demographic changes in U.S. public schools

Students' civil rights and approaches to language education

K-12 ESL program types

The WIDA Consortium

Summary

Praxis

7 Shifting conceptions of equity: Standardization, accountability, and privatization in school reform

No Child Left Behind (NCLB)

English-only policies and anti-bilingual education ideologies

Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and the disciplinary literacy development of all students

Standardization and accountability in teacher evaluation

Summary

Praxis

8 Placing the education of ELLs in a historic, economic, and political context

The growth of the modern school system: Two faces of the Progressive Era

The schooling of immigrants in the 20th century

The schooling of immigrants in the 21st century

Summary

Praxis

9 Putting it all together: SFL in Action

Text/context dynamics in U.S. public schools: A review of key concepts

Teaching and researching ELLs' disciplinary literacy development at Milltown High

Implications for classroom practice and research

Summary

Praxis
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