Bilingual Learners and Social Equity: Critical Approaches to Systemic Functional Linguistics

✍ Scribed by Ruth Harman (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 262
• Series: Educational Linguistics 33
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii
Transforming Normative Discourses of Schooling: Critical Systemic Functional Linguistics Praxis (Ruth Harman)....Pages 1-20
Front Matter ....Pages 21-21
Linguistic Tools for Supporting Emergent Critical Language Awareness in the Elementary School (Mary Schleppegrell, Jason Moore)....Pages 23-43
‘We Can Speak to the World’: Applying Meta-linguistic Knowledge for Specialized and Reflexive Literacies (Sally Humphrey)....Pages 45-69
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
Critical SFL Praxis Principles in English Language Arts Education: Engaging Pre-service Teachers in Reflective Practice (Mariana Achugar, Brian D. Carpenter)....Pages 91-108
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
Front Matter ....Pages 125-125
Mainstream Classrooms as Engaging Spaces for Emergent Bilinguals: SFL Theory, Catalyst for Change (María Estela Brisk, Marcela Ossa Parra)....Pages 127-151
Translanguaging in Systemic Functional Linguistics: A Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy for Writing in Secondary Schools (Nihal Khote)....Pages 153-178
Paraphrastic Academic Writing: Entry Point for First Generation Advanced Bilingual College Students (Andrés Ramírez)....Pages 179-198
Front Matter ....Pages 199-199
Critical Praxis, Design and Reflection Literacy: A Lesson in Multimodality (Diane Potts)....Pages 201-223
Multimodal Mediation and Argumentative Writing: A Case Study of a Multilingual Learner’s Metalanguage Awareness Development (Dong-shin Shin)....Pages 225-242
Bringing It All Together: Critical Take(s) on Systemic Functional Linguistics (Ruth Harman)....Pages 243-254

✦ Subjects

Language Education