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2. The Role of Meaningful Sentence-level Metalanguage: Insights from Children’s Thinking with Functional Grammar


 
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1. Title Title of document 2. The Role of Meaningful Sentence-level Metalanguage: Insights from Children’s Thinking with Functional Grammar - Language in Action
 
2. Creator Author's name, affiliation, country Mary Schleppegrell; University of Michigan; United States
 
2. Creator Author's name, affiliation, country Carrie Symons; Michigan State University;
 
3. Subject Discipline(s) Linguistics
 
4. Subject Keyword(s) systemic functional linguistics; education; translation; literacy; curriculum; teacher education; student learning, academic writing; genre pedagogy; metalanguage; register theory
 
5. Subject Subject classification Systemic Functional Linguistics
 
6. Description Abstract Children learning English as they learn school subjects need opportunities to consider how language means as they engage in reading challenging texts. For that purpose, a functional metalanguage can help focus their attention and support comprehension as it also raises their language awareness. In this chapter we report on the ways the Systemic Functional Linguistics metalanguage of Process, Participant, Circumstance, Connector functioned in a fourth-grade classroom in a project that supported teachers in engaging children who were learning English as an additional language in talk about texts. We situated work with the metalanguage in instructional contexts to help teachers achieve curricular goals, making the theory and its tools useful to and usable by teachers. Here we report on the ways the teacher used the metalanguage to engage students in talk about language to construct meaning as they read together. We then report on think-alouds with challenging text and interviews that engaged children from the classroom in deconstructing sentences and sharing their perspectives on the ways functional grammar metalanguage can support them in reading with greater understanding.
 
7. Publisher Organizing agency, location Equinox Publishing Ltd
 
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9. Date (YYYY-MM-DD) 01-Jun-2021
 
10. Type Status & genre Peer-reviewed Article
 
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12. Format File format PDF
 
13. Identifier Uniform Resource Identifier https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/40627
 
14. Identifier Digital Object Identifier 10.1558/equinox.40627
 
15. Source Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) Equinox eBooks Publishing; Language in Action
 
16. Language English=en en
 
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19. Rights Copyright and permissions Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd