Anglický jazyk

Knowing and Writing School History

Vydavateľstvo: Information Age Publishing
Rok vydania: 2011
Formát: Paperback
Rozmer: 234 x 156 mm
Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
ISBN: 9781617353369

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O knihe

Because school history often relies on reading and writing and has its own discipline-specific
challenges, it is important to understand the language demands of this content area, the typical
writing requirements, and the language expectations of historical discourse. History uses language
in specialized ways, so it can be challenging for students to construct responses to historical
events. It is only through a focus on these specialized ways of presenting and constructing
historical content that students will see how language is used to construe particular contexts.
This book provides the results of a qualitative study that investigated the language resources that
8th and 11th grade students drew on to write an exposition and considered the role of writing in
school history. The study combined a functional linguistic analysis of student writing with educational considerations in the underresearched
content area of history. Data set consisted of writing done by students who were English language learners and other
culturally and linguistically diverse students from two school districts in California. The book is an investigation of expository school
history writing and teachers' expectations for this type of writing. School history writing refers to the kind of historical writing expected
of students at the pre-college levels.
The audience for the book includes researchers and students in advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in applied linguistics and
education. The book is particularly valuable for those interested in applications of systemicfunctional
linguistics in education. The issues covered in the book make it appropriate for
those concerned with the expectations and challenges of literacy development in secondary
content area classes.