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Author Christie, Frances.

Title School discourse : learning to write across the years of schooling / Frances Christie, Beverly Derewianka.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Continuum, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 267 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Continuum discourse series
Continuum discourse series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-255) and index.
Contents Functional approach to writing development -- Writing stories in subject English -- Writing to respond to and evaluate other texts -- Reconstructing the past: recording and describing historical events -- Reviewing the past: interpreting, explaining, arguing and debating historical events -- Observing and writing about the natural world -- Interpreting phenomena of the natural world -- Developmental trajectory in writing -- References -- Index.
Summary This book tracks the developmental changes in writing across the schools curriculum, enhancing a key area of research in applied linguistics. Writing development has been a key area of research in applied linguistics for some time, but most work has focused on children's writing at particular ages. Christie and Derewianka draw on extensive research in both primary and secondary years to trace the developmental trajectory from age 5 or 6 through to 18. Using a systemic functional grammar, they outline developmental changes in writing in three major areas of the school curriculum - English, hist.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Children -- Language.
Children -- Language.
English language -- Written English -- Study and teaching.
English language -- Written English -- Study and teaching.
English language -- Written English.
Language and education.
Language and education.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Subject Children.
Added Author Derewianka, Beverly.
Other Form: Print version: Christie, Frances. School discourse. London : Continuum, 2010 9781441131317 (OCoLC)660545883
ISBN 9781441132208 (electronic book)
1441132201 (electronic book)
9780826499929
9781441131317
1441131310