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Bilingual Learners and Social Equity

Critical Approaches to Systemic Functional Linguistics

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Editors:
  1. Ruth Harman

    1. Language and Literacy Department, University of Georgia, Athens, USA

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  • Offers valuable perspectives on SFL-pedagogy from researchers and active teachers
  • Looks at teaching emergent bilinguals from a culturally-sustaining perspective that improves educational outcomes
  • Provides concrete strategies supported by evidence and experience for teaching literacies
  • Offers a new working definition of critical SFL praxis that contributes to research on genre-based pedagogies and SFL theory

Part of the book series: Educational Linguistics (EDUL, volume 33)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Transforming Normative Discourses of Schooling: Critical Systemic Functional Linguistics Praxis

    • Ruth Harman
    Pages 1-20

  3. Reflection Literacy and Critical Language Awareness

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
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    2. Linguistic Tools for Supporting Emergent Critical Language Awareness in the Elementary School

      • Mary Schleppegrell, Jason Moore
      Pages 23-43

    3. ‘We Can Speak to the World’: Applying Meta-linguistic Knowledge for Specialized and Reflexive Literacies

      • Sally Humphrey
      Pages 45-69

    4. Student Use of SFL Resources on Fantasy, Canonical, and Non-fiction Texts: Critical Literacy in the High School ELA Classroom

      • Amber M. Simmons
      Pages 71-90

    5. Critical SFL Praxis Principles in English Language Arts Education: Engaging Pre-service Teachers in Reflective Practice

      • Mariana Achugar, Brian D. Carpenter
      Pages 91-108

    6. Critical SFL Praxis Among Teacher Candidates: Using Systemic Functional Linguistics in K-12 Teacher Education

      • Luciana C. de Oliveira, Mary A. Avalos
      Pages 109-123
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About this book

This volume explores how educators conceptualized and implemented critical approaches to systemic functional linguistics that support bilingual students in appropriating and challenging dominant knowledge domains in K-16 contexts. The researchers exhibit a shared commitment to enacting a culturally sustaining SFL praxis that validates multilingual meaning making, pushes against social inequity, and fosters creative re-mixing of available semiotic resources. It should prove a valuable resource for students, teachers and researchers interested in applied linguistics, education and critical theory.

Reviews

“[This book] show the incredible reach and potential of SFL–based pedagogies. … There is a wealth of examples provided in all four of the books on how the theory and pedagogy have been adapted to the varying contexts, demonstrating not only their flexibility but also the ease with which researchers and educators have found entry points for their purposes.” (Anne McCabe, Language, Context and Text, Vol. 4 (1), 2022)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Language and Literacy Department, University of Georgia, Athens, USA

    Ruth Harman

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Bilingual Learners and Social Equity

  • Book Subtitle: Critical Approaches to Systemic Functional Linguistics

  • Editors: Ruth Harman

  • Series Title: Educational Linguistics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60953-9

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-60951-5Published: 24 August 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86967-4Published: 12 August 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-60953-9Published: 13 August 2017

  • Series ISSN: 1572-0292

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1656

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 254

  • Number of Illustrations: 28 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Language Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Applied Linguistics, Literacy

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