New Descriptions of Metalanguage for Supporting English Language Learners’ Writing in the Early Years : A Discourse Perspective
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Humphrey, Sally Louise and Hao, Jing. (2019). New Descriptions of Metalanguage for Supporting English Language Learners’ Writing in the Early Years : A Discourse Perspective. In The Handbook of TESOL in K-12 pp. 213-229 Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119421702.ch14
Authors | Humphrey, Sally Louise and Hao, Jing |
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Abstract | TESOL educators working alongside content area teachers have demonstrated the efficacy of metalanguage informed by Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) for supporting English Language Learners' (ELL) disciplinary literacies. Using science as an example, this chapter reports on new descriptions of SFL systems “beyond the clause,” which have provided valuable ways of talking about knowledge building. We report on the application of this metalanguage in analysis of texts composed by young multilingual learners for text-based science investigation in the early years of schooling, including how this analysis revealed the literacy needs of ELLs. We further report on how the teacher of these young learners drew on a principled recontextualized “bridging” metalanguage to facilitate productive discussion of scientific writing. |
Keywords | metalanguage; discourse semantics; multimodal discourse analysis; scientific language; social semiotics; Systemic functional linguistics |
Page range | 213-229 |
Year | 01 Jan 2019 |
Book title | The Handbook of TESOL in K-12 |
Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
Place of publication | United States |
ISBN | 978-1-119-42174-0 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119421702.ch14 |
Web address (URL) | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781119421702.ch14 |
Open access | Published as non-open access |
Research or scholarly | Research |
Publisher's version | License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 12 Apr 2019 |
Publication process dates | |
Completed | 07 May 2019 |
Deposited | 29 Feb 2024 |
Additional information | © 2019 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. |
https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/item/90332/new-descriptions-of-metalanguage-for-supporting-english-language-learners-writing-in-the-early-years-a-discourse-perspective
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