Writing Science: Literacy And Discursive Power

by M.a.k. Halliday

2021-01-11 01:09:28

This book is about the use of language in the science classroom. It discusses the evolution of scientific discourse for learning in secondary schools, and examines the form and function of language across a variety of levels including lexiogrammar, d... Read more
This book is about the use of language in the science classroom. It discusses the evolution of scientific discourse for learning in secondary schools, and examines the form and function of language across a variety of levels including lexiogrammar, discourse semantics, register, genre and ideology. Special attention is paid to how this knowledge is imparted. It will be of particular interest to educators involved with linguistics and/or science curriculum and teachers of English for special and academic purposes.; It is aimed at teachers of undergraduates in science and literacy, linguists teaching in English for special and academic purposes and students in higher education with an interest in science and literacy. Less

Book Details

File size11.02 X 8.5 X 0 in
Print pages300
PublisherRoutledge
Publication date December 20, 2015
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781138997585
M.A.K. HALLIDAY is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia.CHRISTIAN M.I.M. MATTHIESSEN is Chair Professor of the Department of English in the Faculty of Humanities at...

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