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Genre Pedagogy in Higher Education: The SLATE Project [Hardcover]

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  • Category: Books (Education)
  • Author:  Dreyfus, Shoshana J., Humphrey, Sally, Mahboob, Ahmar, Martin, James R.
  • Author:  Dreyfus, Shoshana J., Humphrey, Sally, Mahboob, Ahmar, Martin, James R.
  • ISBN-10:  1137309997
  • ISBN-10:  1137309997
  • ISBN-13:  9781137309990
  • ISBN-13:  9781137309990
  • Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan
  • Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan
  • Pages:  288
  • Pages:  288
  • Binding:  Hardcover
  • Binding:  Hardcover
  • Pub Date:  01-Feb-2015
  • Pub Date:  01-Feb-2015
  • SKU:  1137309997-11-SPRI
  • SKU:  1137309997-11-SPRI
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Based on a large action research project, this book elaborates on how genre-based pedagogy can be extended to engage non-English speaking background students in tertiary educational institutions to develop their academic literacy practice, using online resources.

Based on a large action research project, this book elaborates on how genre-based pedagogy can be extended to engage non-English speaking background students in tertiary educational institutions to develop their academic literacy practice, using online resources.

1. An Introduction to the SLATE Project
2. Modelling Language in Context  Systemic Functional Linguistics
3. Knowledge About Language (KAL)
4. Setting Up a Toolkit for Academic Literacy
5. An Introduction to 'Sydney School' Literacy Programs
6. An Exploration of the Linguistics Program at CityU
7. A Focus on Biology
8. Training Tutors to Work with Students in the SLATE Project
9. Field Building and Deconstruction of Written Texts
10. Joint Construction in the SLATE Project
11. Negotiated Independent Construction: Feedback in the SLATE Project

As an exercise in online language and literacy support to university students, the SLATE project proved truly impressive. Its work deserves wider recognition and I commend this book to all those with an interest in language and literacy education.'
- Frances Christie, University of Melbourne, AustraliaShoshana J. Dreyfus is a freelance researcher and teacher who currently lectures in the Linguistics Department at the University of Sydney, Australia. Her research interests include discourse analysis, language disorder and academic literacy, in the systemic functional and Sydney School models of language.

Sally Humphrey is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education, Australian Catholic University, Australia, and has worked for manl£Z

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