Examines various functional approaches to language and education, and their impact on literacy in the classroom. This book looks at issues of multimodality and explores ways in which language education can be expanded to deal with multimodal discourse. It is of interest to researchers in systemic functional linguistics, or language and education.

Introduction; Part I: Defining Multimodality; 1. 'Writing' or 'Text': thinking around 'Literacy' in contemporary representation and communication Gunther Kress; 2. Language and other semiotic systems in the organization of the written page Christian Matthiessen; 3. Muiltimodality, multimediality and multiliteracies - a new era for the press Eija Ventola; Part II: Multimodality and Education; 4. Children's picture book narratives Clare Painter; 5. Popular culture in the classroom Katina Zammit; 6. Multiliteracies for academic purposes Janet Jones; 7. Literacy, grammar and mathematics Kay O'Halloran; Part III: Literacy and New Approaches in Discourse Analysis; 8. Applying critical discourse analysis to literacy David Hyatt; 9. A study of decontextualization and literacy Inger Lassen. 10. Applying appraisal theory to literacy: propagating values in academic writing Susan Hood; 11. Appraisal in expository texts Elizabeth Swain; Part IV: Corpus Analysis and Literacy; 12. Views from corpus analysis: on the notion of expectation in language learning Gordon Tucker; 13. Corpora, pattern grammars and language education Susan Hunston; Part V: Literacy in a Multilingual World; 14. Language contact and multilinguality Erich Steiner.