Abstract
This paper demonstrates how LCT and SFL can cooperatively be used in a tertiary education setting as
both content and pedagogic strategy to enable students’ success and development as teachers.
To become a K-9 teacher in Denmark, students must successfully complete a number of competency
area assessments. The assessment in the area of Teaching bilingual students requires students to apply
relevant theory and knowledge from the fields of educational linguistics as well as more broadly from
second language development and second language pedagogy to one of their main teaching subjects,
followed by suggestions for pedagogical practice. It is the only written-only assessment of the students’
teaching degree, and as such can be cause of much student worry.
Drawing on the LCT notion of semantic waves (Maton, 2014), students were taught to analyze highly
successful assessments from earlier years, then asked to examine these for corresponding features from
the perspective of discourse semantics and lexico-grammar (Martin & Rose, 2007; Derewianka, 2012)
and how resources such as ie. the use of nominalization, process and participant types and instances of
appraisal are leveraged to construct convincing analyses of pedagogic practices and/or materials.
Explicit instruction in applying analytical tools from LCT and SFL together thus serves both as curriculum
content as well as a methodology, teaching students to meet their own assessment requirements
through these concepts while modelling their usefulness as strategies for scaffolding success – both
their own and that of their future second-language students.
References
Derewianka, B. (2012). A New Grammar Companion for Teachers. Sydney: PETAA
Martin, J. R., & Rose, D. (2007). Working With Discourse: Meaning Beyond the Clause (2nd ed.). London:
Continuum.
Maton, K. (2014). Knowledge and Knowers - Towards a realist sociology of education. Abingdon: Routledge.
Originalsprog | Engelsk |
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Publikationsdato | aug. 2018 |
Antal sider | 1 |
Status | Udgivet - aug. 2018 |
Begivenhed | ISFC 2018 Boston: (re)Imagining the Future: Expanding Resources and Making Connections - Boston College, Boston, USA Varighed: 23 jul. 2018 → 27 jul. 2018 Konferencens nummer: 45 https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/schools/lsoe/faculty-research/ISFC.html |
Konference
Konference | ISFC 2018 Boston |
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Nummer | 45 |
Lokation | Boston College |
Land/Område | USA |
By | Boston |
Periode | 23/07/18 → 27/07/18 |
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Emneord
- Skoler, fag og institutioner