Bilingual Learners and Social Equity Critical Approaches to Systemic Functional Linguistics /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Harman, Ruth (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Educational Linguistics, 33
• Subjects: Language and education.; Educational policy.; Education and state.; Applied linguistics.; Literacy.; Language Education.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Applied Linguistics.
• Physical Description: XVII, 254 p. 28 illus. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783319609539
• ISSN: 1572-0292 ;
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-60953-9

This volume explores how educators conceptualized and implemented critical approaches to systemic functional linguistics that support bilingual students in appropriating and challenging dominant knowledge domains in K-16 contexts. The researchers exhibit a shared commitment to enacting a culturally sustaining SFL praxis that validates multilingual meaning making, pushes against social inequity, and fosters creative re-mixing of available semiotic resources. It should prove a valuable resource for students, teachers and researchers interested in applied linguistics, education and critical theory.