Bilingual Learners and Social Equity: Critical Approaches to Systemic Functional Linguistics (Educational Linguistics Book 33)

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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii Transforming Normative Discourses of Schooling: Critical Systemic Functional Linguistics Praxis (Ruth Harman)....Pages 1-20 Front Matter ....Pages 21-21 Linguistic Tools for Supporting Emergent Critical Language Awareness in the Elementary School (Mary Schleppegrell, Jason Moore)....Pages 23-43 ‘We Can Speak to the World’: Applying Meta-linguistic Knowledge for Specialized and Reflexive Literacies (Sally Humphrey)....Pages 45-69 Student Use of SFL Resources on Fantasy, Canonical, and Non-fiction Texts: Critical Literacy in the High School ELA Classroom (Amber M. Simmons)....Pages 71-90 Critical SFL Praxis Principles in English Language Arts Education: Engaging Pre-service Teachers in Reflective Practice (Mariana Achugar, Brian D. Carpenter)....Pages 91-108 Critical SFL Praxis Among Teacher Candidates: Using Systemic Functional Linguistics in K-12 Teacher Education (Luciana C. de Oliveira, Mary A. Avalos)....Pages 109-123 Front Matter ....Pages 125-125 Mainstream Classrooms as Engaging Spaces for Emergent Bilinguals: SFL Theory, Catalyst for Change (María Estela Brisk, Marcela Ossa Parra)....Pages 127-151 Translanguaging in Systemic Functional Linguistics: A Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy for Writing in Secondary Schools (Nihal Khote)....Pages 153-178 Paraphrastic Academic Writing: Entry Point for First Generation Advanced Bilingual College Students (Andrés Ramírez)....Pages 179-198 Front Matter ....Pages 199-199 Critical Praxis, Design and Reflection Literacy: A Lesson in Multimodality (Diane Potts)....Pages 201-223 Multimodal Mediation and Argumentative Writing: A Case Study of a Multilingual Learner’s Metalanguage Awareness Development (Dong-shin Shin)....Pages 225-242 Bringing It All Together: Critical Take(s) on Systemic Functional Linguistics (Ruth Harman)....Pages 243-254