Table of Contents
Introduction Part I: Development of the SFL Literacy Approach 1. Retrospective on literacy, Michael Halliday (University of Sydney, Australia) and Ruqaiya Hasan2. Literacy and current debates over reading, Frances Christie (University of Sydney, Australia) 3. The 'Write it Right' project, Robert Veel (University of Sydney, Australia)Part II: Approaches to literacy in educational systems around the world4. Metadiscourse: meaning, consciousness and literacy learning, J.R. Martin (University of Sydney, Australia) 5. Towards a pedagogical grammar, John Polias (Lexis Education, Australia) and Brian Dare (Lexis Education, Australia)6. Whole school genre maps, Bronwyn Custance 7. The impact of genre theory and pedagogy and systemic functional linguistics on National Literacy Strategies in the UK, Paddy Walsh8. Language, literacy and cultural politics: the debate on the new language curriculum in Portugal, Carlos A. M. Gouveia (University of Lisbon, Portugal)9. Implementing the genre approach in a South African school, Carol Thomson (University of KwaZulu-Natal, Australia) and Mike Hart (University of KwaZulu-Natal, Australia)III: Literacy across specific disciplines 10. Reconstruing 'personal time' as 'collective time': learning the discourse of history, Caroline Coffin (The Open University, UK) 11. Exploring a novel through engagement with its grammatical form, Lorraine McDonald (Australian Catholic University, Australia) 12. Guiding senior secondary schools towards writing academically-valued responses to poetry, Susan Marshall 13. Emergent disciplinary: a comparative study of Theme in undergraduate essays in geography and history of science, Ann Hewings (The Open University, UK) and Sarah North (The Open University, UK)
