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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Jointly Constructing Semantic Waves: Implications for Teacher Training
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Macnaught, Lucy; Maton, Karl; Martin, J. R.; Matruglio, Erika – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2013
This paper addresses how teachers can be trained to enable cumulative knowledge-building. It focuses on the final intervention stage of the "Disciplinarity, Knowledge and Schooling" ("DISKS") project at the University of Sydney. In this special issue, Maton identifies "semantic waves" as a crucial characteristic of teaching for cumulative…
Descriptors: Semantics, Classroom Communication, Discourse Analysis, Teacher Education
Embedded Literacy: Knowledge as Meaning
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Martin, J. R. – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2013
This paper takes as point of departure the register variable field, and explores its application to the discourse of History and Biology in secondary school classrooms from the perspective of systemic functional linguistics. In particular it considers the functions of technicality and abstraction in these subject specific discourses, and their…
Descriptors: Semantics, Discourse Analysis, Writing (Composition), Literacy
Time Travel: The Role of Temporality in Enabling Semantic Waves in Secondary School Teaching
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Matruglio, Erika; Maton, Karl; Martin, J. R. – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2013
Based on the theoretical understandings from Legitimation Code Theory (Maton, 2013) and Systemic Functional Linguistics (Martin, 2013) underpinning the research discussed in this special issue, this paper focuses on classroom pedagogy to illustrate an important strategy for making semantic waves in History teaching, namely "temporal shifting". We…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Semantics, Discourse Analysis, Role
Genre and Language Learning: A Social Semiotic Perspective
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Martin, J. R. – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2009
This paper provides a basic introduction to the genre-based literacy research undertaken over the past three decades by educators and functional linguists in Australia and their innovative contributions to literacy pedagogy and curriculum. It focuses on the concept of genre, its place within the model of language and context developed as systemic…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Semiotics