Portraits of Writing Instruction: Using Systemic Functional Linguistics to Inform Teaching of Bilingual and Monolingual Elementary Students

Thesis advisor: Maria E. Brisk === This descriptive case study examines the role that Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) theory of language can play in making academic language more transparent and accessible to linguistically diverse students. In an urban fourth grade classroom composed of both...

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Main Author: Harris, Elizabeth Anne
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Boston College 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2345/2173