Scientific Discourse: Multiliteracy in the Classroom (Continuum Discourse)

✍ Scribed by David Ian Hanauer

• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 225
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Scientific Discourse examines the nature of scientific inquiry in the primary school classroom to show how this interacts with early literacy. Through an examination of the texts used and produced by pupils studying science the author shows how what is at work in this context of scientific discourse is actually multiliteracy. The teacher aids the pupils' learning using different forms of literacy spread across the spoken word, written text, visual text and physical action. The result of this diverse approach is a growth not only in scientific knowledge, but basic literacy. The book provides a theoretical introduction to developmental literacy theory, current positions of science education and advanced theories of multiliteracy and genre theory. The new theory of scientific discourse presented in this book will be of interest to researchers of applied linguistics, discourse analysis and education.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 12
1 Introduction: Situating Science, Literacy and Discourse in the Inquiry Classroom......Page 14
2 From Letter Recognition to Meaning Construction: Developmental Processes in Science and Literacy......Page 20
3 Teaching Science: The Revolution and Ramifications of Elementary School Science Inquiry......Page 31
4 Researching Scientific Inquiry in the Elementary Classroom......Page 38
5 The Tasks of Scientific Inquiry......Page 64
6 The Genre of Scientific Inquiry......Page 107
7 The Development of Scientific Knowledge......Page 159
8 The Multiliteracy of Scientific Knowledge Development......Page 188
9 Conceptualizing Scientific Discourse......Page 201
Bibliography......Page 218
G......Page 223
Q......Page 224
Y......Page 225