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An inquiry into the development of critical text creators: Teaching grammar in the primary years ...
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Abstract:
The inaugural Australian Curriculum: English (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority [ACARA], 2010a) included functional grammar as a necessity to account for the increasing number of multimodal texts with which students are engaging. As texts become increasingly multimodal, students continue to require critical literacy skills that allow for the analysis of these texts. Alongside changes in the curriculum, researchers raised concerns about teachers’ knowledge in functional grammar Love and Humphrey (2012); (Love et al., 2015). With limited support for the development of grammar pedagogy, educators have relied more on traditional approaches (Harper & Rennie, 2009; Snyder, 2008). Consequently, there is a need for research on functional grammar pedagogy that accounts for multimodal texts and critical literacy. A qualitative case study methodology with a teacher-researcher was used to investigate the overarching research question How can functional grammar develop students’ critical ...
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Keyword:
Bernstein; critical literacy; framing; functional grammar; grammar; Halliday; multimodal texts; primary years; systemic functional linguistics
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URL: https://research-repository.griffith.edu.au/handle/10072/411535
https://dx.doi.org/10.25904/1912/4434
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