Action Research is becoming more popular in nursing and healthcare. It is used by practitioners who want to better understand and improve the quality of their work, and by students who need to do a research project for their course. An Action Research approach enables evidence-based care and links r[...]
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Presents a survey of M A K Halliday's work on Systemic Functional Linguistics. This title contains selected articles by Halliday on the core areas of systemic functional linguistics. It includes discussion of function, metafunction, grammar, metaphor, learning and teaching language, child language, [...]
Are you struggling with the complexities of assessment? Demystifying the process of assessment for learning in the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), this book explains how to put principles into practice. Looking at models of assessment, it draws on examples of real assessments from practice, and[...]
The sociolinguistic turn of the 60's has been remarkably successful: variability of language is no longer an issue open to debate. But studies of variation have by and large been restricted to the level of expression. This volume offers a critique of present day sociolinguistic, arguing that since m[...]
The last two decades have seen a good deal of work in educational linguistics, which has created a deeper understanding of how language works in different varieties of discourse and what a teacher needs to know for engaging successfully in language education. In this sense, the focus has been largel[...]