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Mickan, Peter – TESOL in Context, 2022
This paper outlines the general influence of Halliday's (1994, 2014) systemic functional linguistics on TESOL curriculum. Halliday's explanation of language as a social semiotic and language learning as learning to mean has been applied internationally in genre and textbased teaching. The concept of register in systemic functional linguistics…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Linguistic Theory
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Adami, Elisabetta; Diamantopoulou, Sophia; Lim, Fei Victor – London Review of Education, 2022
Gunther Kress's multimodal and social semiotic theory of communication has moved beyond the realm of linguistics, which originally framed his work, and has reached out to inform other fields, such as those of education, museum studies, as well as the humanities and social sciences more broadly. This article brings together our insights in relation…
Descriptors: Semiotics, Interpersonal Communication, Linguistic Theory, Design
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Amgott, Natalie; Gorham, Julia A. – Foreign Language Annals, 2023
In recent years, research in multimodality has established the benefits of using multiple semiotic modes like image, sound, and text in digital second language (L2) communication. However, researchers have yet to investigate how L2 learners make meaning through embodied modes--or gestures and facial expressions. Grounded in the social semiotic…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, French, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Spicer, David H. Eddy – Language and Education, 2011
Professional collaboration in schools features prominently in contemporary approaches to educational change. Advocates highlight the importance of situated knowledge to continuous teacher learning, sustained school reform and improved student learning. Critics portray collaboration as an invisible and coercive means of official control. The…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Teacher Collaboration, Learning Processes, Semiotics
Lemke, J. L. – 1991
Social semiotics suggests that social and cultural formations, including the language and practice of science and the ways in which new generations and communities advance them, develop as an integral part of the evolution of social ecosystems. Some recent models of complex dynamic systems in physics, chemistry, and biology focus more on the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Epistemology, Learning Processes, Learning Theories
Bowerman, Melissa – 1974
This is a study of the kinds of processes involved in learning the meaning of individual lexical items, and in particular how the acquisition of lexical meaning is related to the cognitive structuring of events on the one hand and the ability to produce syntactic paraphrases of a word's meaning and other related constructions on the other. It is…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Componential Analysis, Deep Structure