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This book is intended as a textbook for teacher education in the primary years. Drawing on much recent research into language and literacy, especially Systemic Functional Linguistic theory, it provides basic principles for understanding the teaching of the English language.

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Tracks the developmental changes in writing across the schools curriculum, enhancing a key area of research in applied linguistics. Using a systemic functional grammar, this book outlines developmental changes in writing in three major areas of the school curriculum - English, history, and science.

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This book offers a model of classroom discourse analysis that uses systemic functional linguistic theory and associated genre theory to develop a view of classroom episodes as 'curriculum genres', some of which operate in turn as part of larger unities of work, called 'curriculum macrogenres'.

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This model of classroom discourse analysis uses systemic functional linguistic theory and associated genre theory to develop a view of classroom episodes as "curriculum genres", operating in "curriculum macrogenres". Christie argues that two registers operate in pedagogic discourse.

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Demonstrates how significant disciplinarity is to understanding different forms of knowledge and improving educational practice. This title illustrates how different disciplines can collaborate and cross-fertilize successfully, without losing their distinctive insights and disciplinary integrity.

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This book examines genres as instances of social processes, enacting a range of important institutional practices, hence also shaping people's subjectivities. Genres represent purposive and staged ways of building means in a culture.

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Explores the nature of knowledge, language and pedagogy from the perspective of two complementary theories: systemic functional linguistics, and Bernstein-inspired sociology. This book shows the impact of language on knowledge and pedagogy. It examines the different structures of knowledge and the flow of information within the school context.

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Explores the nature of language, knowledge and pedagogy. This book explores the nature of knowledge, language and pedagogy from the perspective of two complementary theories: systemic functional linguistics, and Bernstein-inspired sociology.

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This volume seeks to renew the dialogue between Bernstein's sociology and systemic functional linguistic theory. The discussions demonstrate the role and significance of pedagogy in shaping consciousness and also reveal the continuing relevance of the theories to each other.

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Writing development has been a key area of research in applied linguistics. Using a systemic functional grammar, this book outlines developmental changes in writing in three major areas of the school curriculum - English, history, and science - as children move from early childhood to late childhood and on to adolescence and adulthood.