[lg policy] The Stanford Linguistics Newsletter: LEEP Talk on Meta-language in Language Development

[Harold Schiffman]

The Stanford Linguistics Newsletter


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LEEP Talk on Meta-language in Language Development

The Language, Equity, and Educational Policy Working Group (LEEP) at
the School of Education will be hosting a talk about “The role of a
meta-language in supporting academic language development” by Mary J.
Schleppegrell (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor). The talk is this
Tuesday, 13 April, at 6:00pm in Cubberly 115. Free pizza is provided!

Professor Schleppegrell will report on ongoing professional
development work with primary school literacy teachers and with
middle- and secondary-school history teachers, where constructs from
systemic functional linguistics (SFL) are being used to engage
teachers and students in talk about language that supports learning
language and content. The SFL meta-language enables teachers and
students to explore meaning in the texts students read and gives
teachers tools for drawing students? attention to the linguistic
resources they need to develop to write in ways that are valued. Other
affordances of the use of this linguistic meta-language will also be
discussed; in particular, how it gives teachers new insights into
their students? abilities and how it supports the academic language
development of students learning English as a second language at
different levels and in different school subjects.

Recommended readings:
Achugar, M., Schleppegrell, M. J., & Ote?za, T. (2007). Engaging
teachers in language analysis: A functional linguistics approach to
reflective literacy. English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 6 (2),
8-24.

Fang, Z., & Schleppegrell, M. J. (2010). Disciplinary literacies
across content areas: Supporting secondary reading through functional
language analysis. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 53 (7). (In
press).

Schleppegrell, M. J., & de Oliveira, L. C. (2006). An integrated
language and content approach for history teachers. Journal of English
for Academic Purposes 5 (4), 254-268.

Schleppegrell, Mary J. (2004). The Language of Schooling: A functional
linguistics perspective . Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

We look forward to your presence at this event.

http://sesquipedalian.stanford.edu/2010/04/09/p3237/

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