This book presents the research of the Sydney School in language and literacy pedagogy. Widely known as genre-based pedagogy, the research is cutting-edge, but is built on 30 years of developments in the field, in a unique collaboration between functional linguists and literacy educators. This collaboration has transformed linguistic and pedagogic theory into a powerful, comprehensive methodology for embedding literacy teaching in educational practice. The book is written to be useful for practitioners, researchers and students, building up pedagogic, linguistic and social theory in steps, contextualized within teaching practice. Topics covered include the genre-based writing pedagogy, genres across the school curriculum, pedagogy for learning through reading, and the pedagogic metalanguage developed in the research. On one hand this volume offers educators an unparalleled set of strategies for transforming educational outcomes; on the other it offers researchers powerful tools for investigating and redesigning educational practice.
David Rose is a Research Fellow with the University of Sydney, currently coordinating a national research program in language and literacy for Indigenous Australians. This project, Learning to Read: Reading to Learn, works with schools across Australia, as well as Indigenous teacher training programs in University of Sydney and University of South Australia. J R Martin is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney. His research interests include systemic theory, functional grammar, discourse semantics, register, genre, multimodality and critical discourse analysis, focussing on English and Tagalog - with special reference to the transdisciplinary fields of educational linguistics and social semiotics.

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Claire Acevedo is an affiliated researcher in Language and Literacies at The Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology at the Open University. David Rose is Director of Reading to Learn and an Honorary Associate of the University of Sydney. Rachel Whittaker is Honorary Lecturer in the Department of English Studies at Universidad Aut?oma de Madrid. Claire Acevedo is an affiliated researcher in Language and Literacies at The Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology at the Open University. David Rose is Director of Reading to Learn and an Honorary Associate of the University of Sydney. Rachel Whittaker is Honorary Lecturer in the Department of English Studies at Universidad Aut?oma de Madrid. Claire Acevedo is an affiliated researcher in Language and Literacies at The Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology at the Open University. David Rose is Director of Reading to Learn and an Honorary Associate of the University of Sydney. Rachel Whittaker is Honorary Lecturer in the Department of English Studies at Universidad Aut?oma de Madrid.