A Language as Social Semiotic-Based Approach to Teaching and Learning in Higher Education [Paperback]

This monograph offers research-based perspectives and linguistically informed approaches to supporting language and literacy development in higher education.

Series Editors Foreword vii  x

Acknowledgments?xi

Chapter 1. Language, Teaching, and Learning: General Orientations 1  10

Chapter 2. A LASS Approach to Teaching and Learning: Theoretical Foundations 11  38

Chapter 3. A LASS Approach to Teaching and Learning: Analytical Tools 39  84

Chapter 4. This Is Description, Not Film Analysis: Semiotically Mediating Genre, Conceptual Formations, and Text Development 85145

Chapter 5. 48 Marks Knocked Off for Academic Writing or Lack of Really Annoyed Me: Genre, Conceptual Formations, and Semantic?Variation 147204

Chapter 6. I Feel Very New to It and Very Inexperienced: Semantic Orientation, Semiotic Mediation, and the Genres and Registers of Online?Discussion Forums 205  254

Chapter 7. Implementing a LASS Approach to Teaching?and Learning 255  286

References? 287  297

Index 299  308

Caroline Coffin is Professor in English Language and Applied Linguistics at The Open University, UK, and co-convenor of the Language and Communication Research Unit. Since the early 1990s she has been using a language as social semiotic approach to investigate the role of language in learning in a range of contexts. Using the tools of systemic functional linguistics she has been particularly interested in investigating disciplinary knowledge and discourse including how it is taught and learned through computer mediated dialogue. Her research into language, education, and communication has been funded by a wide range of organizations including, in the UK, the EU, ESRC, HEA, DfeS, and, in Australia, the New South Wales (NSW) l£1