Making Language Visible in Social Studies

Making Language Visible in Social Studies provides clear guidance on how language is used in the discipline and provide practical tools to empower teachers to teach language in the service of social studies disciplinary genres.

As the first book in the Making Disciplinary Language Visible series, this practical toolkit helps teachers promote disciplinary literacy development for Multilingual learners and their peers in the 5-12 social studies classroom. Using systemic functional linguistics (SFL) and the SFL-informed genre pedagogy, the Teaching and Learning Cycle for Disciplinary Genres, the book shows teachers how to teach content using language as a meaning-making resource. Besser and Westerlund provide clear guidance on understanding how language is used in the discipline and provide practical tools to empower teachers to teach language in the service of social studies disciplinary genres.

Chapters feature authentic vignettes to illustrate problems of practice, annotated social studies texts, practical curriculum design tools, exercises for readers to develop knowledge about language, and sample scripts for practical application.

Auteur

Sharon Besser is a teacher educator, curriculum writer, and researcher who looks at problems in education through the lens of Systemic Functional Linguistics. She has over 25 years of experience locally and internationally in support of Multilingual learners.

Ruslana Westerlund is an educational consultant, author, keynote speaker, and researcher of disciplinary literacy through Systemic Functional Linguistics with more than 25 years of experience in the field of Multilingual learner education.

Contenu

Chapter 1

What does it mean to make language visible in Social Studies and why do we need to do it?

Chapter 2

What is the nature of language in Social Studies explanations?

What do we mean by explain?

Chapter 3

What is the nature of language of arguments in Social Studies? What do we mean by argue?

Chapter 4

How to make Language visible using the Teaching and Learning Cycle for Disciplinary Genres

Chapter 5

A language-based approach to disciplinary reading