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...

This is the first comprehensive account of the Appraisal Framework. The underlying linguistic theory is explained and justified, and the application of this flexible tool, which has been applied to a wide variety of text and discourse analysis issues, is demonstrated throughout by sample text analyses from a range of registers, genres and fields.

This book presents the research of the Sydney School in language and literacy pedagogy. Widely known as genre-based pedagogy, the research is cutting-edge, but is built on 30 years of developments in the field, in a unique collaboration between functional linguists and literacy educators. This collaboration has transformed linguistic and pedagogic theory into a powerful, comprehensive methodology for embedding literacy teaching in educational practice. The book is written to be useful for practitioners, researchers and students, building up pedagogic, linguistic and social theory in steps,...

La Dra. Miriam Esterlin se encuentra investigando nuevos casos aparecidos en Espana de la enfermedad espongiforme bovina, mas conocida como "el mal de las vacas locas." Uno de los casos la desplaza hasta el hospital La Esperanza de Malaga, donde ingreso un inmigrante que encontraron abandonado en una cuneta de la N-320 con sintomas similares a los de la enfermedad. Paralelamente Marcos Esterlin, su padre y director del diario Expresion, muere junto a su esposa en un accidente de coche mientras trabajaba en un caso de escandalo financiero. Tres anos mas tarde, su hermana, la periodista...