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Continue reading →: Review “Foregrounding the disciplines” Moje 2008
Originally posted on The Nerdpress: Reference: Moje, E.B. (2008). ‘Foregrounding the disciplines in secondary literacy teaching and learning: A call for change.’ Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 52(2), 96-107. Retrieved from Academic Search Complete database (EBSCOhost). {EDIT: another SecEd student has responded to two Moje articles @Synergistic Bonding in…
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Continue reading →: The Language of Balance v. The Language of Absolutes
The Language of Balance and The Language of Absolutes by Rob Westerlund & Ruslana Westerlund When it comes to politics and the mass media, it’s the rabid dog that barks the loudest. News agencies make their profits by having a large audience watch their newscast and commercials. Every journalist worth…
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Continue reading →: Halliday on Spoken and Written Language
This blog serves as a repository of my favorite quotes and a few notes on Halliday, M. A. K. (1989). Spoken and written language. Oxford University Press and Language and Education, Volume 9 in the Collected Works of M.A.K. Halliday, (2007). Both Vygotsky and Halliday came to the same conclusions about the role of…
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Continue reading →: How it all hangs togetherOriginally posted on Anne's Angle: Becoming aware of the technicalities of our language and how it works in the PETAA Grammar and Teaching course with Jo Rossbridge has been an absolute eye opener for me. In all these years there is so much that I have just taken for granted about…
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Continue reading →: Thinking back to move our English language learners forward with writingOriginally posted on Anne's Angle: Module 5 concludes our course Teaching students from a refugee background (c) State of NSW (Dept 0f Education) 2016. Looking at the module outline I have been pondering why it bears the simple title, Teaching Writing – but more of that later. To be able to write well is definitely…
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Continue reading →: Language Development from the SFL Perspectiveby Ruslana Westerlund, Ed. D. The purpose of this post is to share theoretical thoughts on language development from sociocultural perspective (contrastive to psycholinguistic view), namely, Systemic Functional Linguistics. This blog, hence, will serve as a vessel for capturing syntheses from my own readings of SFL scholars. As an explicit…
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Continue reading →: Slaves or Workers: “Grammatical Choices as Moral Choices” in History Textbooks
by Ruslana Westerlund The New York Times published an op-ed in 2015 analyzing the language used in the Texas History textbooks published by McGraw-Hill Education. The “Grammatical choices as moral choices” phrase in my title came from that article. The NYT piece references this original post where Coby Burren, a 15…
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Continue reading →: Beyond Grammar Correction: Developing Writers Through Genre Approach
By Ruslana Westerlund I’ve been thinking about the act of writing for a while now. What is writing? What does it mean to be a writer? What are the linguistic and cultural challenges to writing for multilingual writers? In this blog, I’ll talk about what writing means to me. I’ll…
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Continue reading →: From Speaking to Writing in a Science Classroom
By Katy J. Kobany Cumulative Project for EDUC 731: Responsive Pedagogy for ELLs, Bethel University, Teacher: Dr. Ruslana Westerlund Academic standards 8323: Water, which covers the majority of the Earth’s surface, circulates through the crust, oceans and atmosphere in what is known as the water cycle. Essential question(s) Where is water…
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Continue reading →: What Does Language Do in History?
By Ruslana Westerlund History is often studied as facts, events or lives of historical figures. We study history to understand the past or even predict the future. If we want to build democratic classrooms, history needs to be problematized. This is not a new idea. We ask students to answer questions such…
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