Workshop: Mary J. Schleppegrell
The language of “content”: the relevance of grammar
| What | Special Presentation |
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| When |
2008-02-15 09:00 AM
2008-02-15 12:00 PM
February 15, 2008 from 09:00 am to 12:00 pm |
| Where | 53A Olson Hall |
| Contact Name | Li-fen Lin |
| Contact Email | lflin@ucdavis.edu |
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This workshop will help you develop ways of talking about “content” by engaging students in analysis of the texts they read. Using functional grammar to analyze what the text is about, the perspectives and attitudes of the author, and the text organization, you will learn to link the language choices of an author with the different kinds of meaning those choices construct. This can help you engage students in exploration of content that also enables them to engage critically with what they read. We will work with texts in different content areas, using constructs and metalanguage from systemic functional linguistics that have been useful to teachers working with English language learners. We will also explore how these analytic approaches can inform research on teaching and learning.
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