M. A. K. Halliday, J. R. Martin

Writing Science (eBook, ePUB)

Literacy And Discursive Power

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 teaching in English for special and academic purposes and students in higher education with an interest in science and literacy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135723040
• Artikelnr.: 41859654

Autorenporträt

M.A.K Halliday, J.R. Martin

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - the discursive technology of science. Part 1 Professional
literacy: construing nature; on the language of physical science; some
grammatical problems in scientific English; the construction of knowledge
and value of the grammar of scientific discourse - with reference to
Charles Darwin's The Origin of the Species; language and the order of
nature; the analysis of scientific texts in English and Chinese. Part 2
School literacy: construing knowledge. Part 3 Uncommon sense: secondary
geography and science; the discourse of geography - ordering and explaining
the experimental world; literacy in science - learning to handle text as
technology. Part 4 Technicality and abstraction: secondary science and
humanities; technicality and abstraction - language for the creation of
specialised texts; secret English - discourse technology in a junior
secondary school; life as a noun - arresting the universe in science and
technology.