Teaching to mean, writing to mean: SFL, L2 literacy, and teacher education

Journal of Second Language Writing

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 107-124

  Gebhard, Meg ^a   Chen, I An ^a   Graham, Holly ^a   Gunawan, Wawan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic language; Genre; Grammar instruction; Halliday; L2 writing; Metalanguage; Systemic functional linguistics; Teacher education

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879121110     PISSN: 10603743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jslw.2013.03.005     Document Type: Article

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