School Discourse: Learning to Write Across the Years of Schooling (Continuum Discourse)

by Frances Christie (Author), Beverly Derewianka (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2008

  $260.62

  Writing development has been a key area of research in applied linguistics. Using a systemic functional grammar, this book outlines developmental changes in writing in three major areas of the school curriculum - English, history, and science - as children move from early childhood to late childhood and on to adolescence and adulthood.