Language and Literacy Functional Approaches
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Biographical note
Dr Rachel Whittaker is Lecturer at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain. Dr Mick O'Donnell is Research Fellow at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain. Dr Anne McCabe is Assistant Professor at Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus, Spain, where she is Head of the ESL programme.mention- Book News Inc./ August 2007
"In the United States, where so-called balanced literary is often discussed and promoted an articulation of the language-centered, SFL-inspired approach to literacy education seems timely. This work chronicles how the SFL movement has situated itself in the middle ground between authoritarian instruction (e.g., phonics) and progressive instruction (e.g., whole language). Instructors working in the SFL tradition maintain simultaneous perspectives on language as structure and language as social action, and the examples in this book illustrate, with detail and specificity, just exactly how these perspectives are realized in day-to-day, genre-based instruction. In describing these practices, this book provides its readers with one method for working toward balanced literacy in the classroom. Language and literacy graduate students, language teachers, and those interested in international trends in language and literacy are likely to find this work useful and informative." -Mary M. Juzwik and Anne Heintz, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, December 2008