Knowing and Writing School History

The Language of Students' Expository Writing and Teachers' Expectations

Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Language Arts, Writing & Publishing, Composition & Creative Writing, Education & Teaching
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Author: Luciana C. de Oliveira ISBN: 9781617353383
Publisher: Information Age Publishing Publication: March 1, 2011
Imprint: Information Age Publishing Language: English
Author: Luciana C. de Oliveira
ISBN: 9781617353383
Publisher: Information Age Publishing
Publication: March 1, 2011
Imprint: Information Age Publishing
Language: English

Because school history often relies on reading and writing and has its own disciplinespecific challenges, it is important to understand the language demands of this content area, the typical writing requirements, and the language expectations of historical discourse. History uses language is specialized ways, so it can be challenging for students to construct responses to historical events. It is only through a focus on these specialized ways of presenting and constructing historical content that students will see how language is used to construe particular contexts. This book provides the results of a qualitative study that investigated the language resources that 8th and 11th grade students drew on to write an exposition and considered the role of writing in school history. The study combined a functional linguistic analysis of student writing with educational considerations in the underresearched content area of history. Data set consisted of writing done by students who were English language learners and other culturally and linguistically diverse students from two school districts in California. The book is an investigation of expository school history writing and teachers’ expectations for this type of writing. School history writing refers to the kind of historical writing expected of students at the precollege levels.

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Because school history often relies on reading and writing and has its own disciplinespecific challenges, it is important to understand the language demands of this content area, the typical writing requirements, and the language expectations of historical discourse. History uses language is specialized ways, so it can be challenging for students to construct responses to historical events. It is only through a focus on these specialized ways of presenting and constructing historical content that students will see how language is used to construe particular contexts. This book provides the results of a qualitative study that investigated the language resources that 8th and 11th grade students drew on to write an exposition and considered the role of writing in school history. The study combined a functional linguistic analysis of student writing with educational considerations in the underresearched content area of history. Data set consisted of writing done by students who were English language learners and other culturally and linguistically diverse students from two school districts in California. The book is an investigation of expository school history writing and teachers’ expectations for this type of writing. School history writing refers to the kind of historical writing expected of students at the precollege levels.

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