Language and Literacy: Functional Approaches

by Rachel Whittaker and Anne McCabe

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826489478
• ISBN13: 9780826489470
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"