Researching Language In Schools And Communities: Functional Linguistic Perspectives (Paperback - 2000)

About the Book
This text is designed as an introductory resource for those who wish to carry out or study research in children's language development, teaching English as a second language, children's literature, causal conversation, social class and language variation and other applied language research fields. The contributors are researchers in the field and introduce approaches to investigating such areas using systemic functional linguistics (SFL). A key purpose of the text is to facilitate the further engagement of language researchers with SFL perspectives, encouraging more collaborative transdisciplinary work across different fields of study and theoretical approaches in projects of mutual concern.