Preface / Mick O'Donnell -- An introduction to language and literacy / Anne McCabe and Rachel Whittaker -- Retrospective on SFL and literacy / Michael Halliday and Ruqaiya Hasan -- Literacy teaching and current debates over reading / Frances Christie -- The Write it right project- linguistic modelling of secondary school and the workplace -- Metadiscourse: designing interaction in genre-based literacy programmes / J.R. Martin -- Towards a pedagogical grammar / John Polias and Brian Dare -- Whole-school genre maps: a case study in South Australia / Bronwyn Custance -- The impact of genre theory and pedagogy and systemic functional linguistics on National Literacy Strategies in the UK / Paddy Walsh -- Language, literacy and cultural politics: the debate on the new language curriculum in Portugal / Carlos A.M. Gouveia -- Implementing the genre approach in a South African school / Carol Thomson and Mike Hart -- Reconstruing 'personal time' as 'collective time': learning the discourse of history / Caroline Coffin -- Exploring a novel through engagement with its grammatical form: perspectives for a primary/middle school classroom / Lorraine McDonald -- Guiding senior secondary students towards writing academically-valued responses to poetry / Susan Marshall -- Emergent discipline: a comparative study of theme in undergraduate essays in geography and history of science / Ann Hewings and Sarah North.
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This volume examines the relationship between language and literacy from a systemic functional perspective. The book starts with a retrospective view on the development of language education practices, written by eminent linguistics Michael Halliday and Ruqaiya Hasan, and then shows how this approach is implemented today. The second section presents a detailed analysis of how considerations of literacy education are approached in educational systems around the world. The contributors examine issues such as metadiscourse, genre, cultural politics, and how systemic functional grammar can help to.