Colloquium: Mary J. Schleppegrell
Professor Schleppegrell (University of Michigan) will give a talk entitled "Perspectives on academic language and their implications for classroom practice and research."
| What | Colloquium |
|---|---|
| When |
2008-02-14 03:00 PM
2008-02-14 04:30 PM
February 14, 2008 from 03:00 pm to 04:30 pm |
| Where | 53A Olson Hall |
| Contact Name | Lifen Lin |
| Contact Email | lflin@ucdavis.edu |
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I will review three perspectives on academic language that currently inform research and classroom practice: Cummins’ comparison of interpersonal and academic language proficiency, Gee’s notion of primary and secondary discourses, and systemic functional linguistics’ (SFL) constructs that inform notions of academic language, what I have called The Language of Schooling. I will show how these perspectives provide different lenses through which to view students’ language use and to conduct research on language in classrooms. I will then offer examples of classroom work informed by SFL approaches from my recent work with teachers of English language learners.
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