Reading nominalizations in senior science

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Hao, Jing and Humphrey, Sally. (2019). Reading nominalizations in senior science. Journal of English for Academic Purposes. 42, p. Article: 100793. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeap.2019.100793
AuthorsHao, Jing and Humphrey, Sally
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The paper examines the challenges faced by senior Biology students in reading ‘nominalizations’ in textbook materials and illustrates how the challenges can be addressed through pedagogical activities. The study draws on emerging descriptions of field and discourse semantics in Systemic Functional Linguistics that are inspired by Halliday's distinction between ‘live’ and ‘dead’ grammatical metaphors. It first presents a metalanguage to discriminate functions of nominalization. Two different kinds of ‘mismatches’ of meaning are discussed, including how field activities are reconstrued through discourse semantic resources, and how discourse semantic resources are remapped as lexicogrammatical resources. The paper attends to nominalization from the perspective of the knowledge that is at stake in its use. In addition to providing linguistic metalanguage, the paper demonstrates pedagogic practices designed to support teachers to make this knowledge visible. These pedagogic practices include cross-mode redescription and Detailed Reading from SFL-informed Reading to Learn pedagogy.

Year2019
JournalJournal of English for Academic Purposes
Journal citation42, p. Article: 100793
PublisherElsevier Ltd
ISSN1475-1585
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeap.2019.100793
Scopus EID2-s2.0-85072269329
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Page range1-15
FunderAustralian Research Council (ARC)
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Accepted08 Sep 2019
Deposited21 Dec 2021
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