Alternative Format Session: Exploring Classroom Texts – Using Functional Linguistics in Literacy Research and Teaching in Australia, USA and Denmark

Session Submission Type: Alternative Format Session

Abstract

This alternative session will first present a short overview of a functional approach to thinking about texts, followed by roundtables of scholars who have then applied this theory to their own specific teaching and researching contexts.
Roundtable #1: Writing literary texts to engage the reader (Australia)
Roundtable #2: Writing to reason in elementary engineering (USA)
Roundtable #3: Using the UAM Corpus Tool for analysis of texts from Vocational Education (Denmark)

Content Area

• AREA 12. International Research on Literacy Teaching and Learning

Chair

• Raúl Alberto Mora, Literacies in Second Languages Project, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana

Discussant

• Rick Marlatt, New Mexico State University

Individual Presentations

• Alternative Format Session: Exploring Classroom Texts – Using Functional Linguistics in Literacy Research and Teaching in the US, Australia and Denmark - Jon Callow, The University of Sydney; Katina Zammit, Dr; Patricia Paugh, University of Massachusetts, Boston, Curriculum & Instruction; Bettina Buch, University College Absalon, Center for Teaching and Learning