This book explores the linguistic features of the language students need to learn for success at school. It builds on frequently-cited sociolinguistic, applied linguistic, and discourse-analytic studies of language in school, but interprets these from a functional linguistics perspective, describing the particular grammatical choices make meanings in the texts students are asked to read and write at school.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contents: Preface. Characterizing the Language of Schooling. Language and Context. Linguistic Features of Academic Registers. Writing School Genres. Functional Grammar in School Subjects. Language Development in School.