The Linguistic Challenge of the Transition to Secondary School : A Corpus Study of Academic Language.
"This book provides a unique analysis and description of the linguistic challenges faced by school students as they move from primary to secondary school, a major transition, which some students struggle with emotionally and academically"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Milton :
Taylor & Francis Group,
2022.
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| Series: | Routledge Applied Corpus Linguistics Ser.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | "This book provides a unique analysis and description of the linguistic challenges faced by school students as they move from primary to secondary school, a major transition, which some students struggle with emotionally and academically"-- Provided by publisher. |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record. Keywords OAPEN Library |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (228 p.). |
| Bibliography: | References -- Chapter 7 The language of mathematics at the transition -- Introduction -- The KS2 and KS3 curricula -- Learning mathematics and language -- Mathematics, anxiety and the transition -- Talking about mathematics -- Features of the language of mathematics -- Discourse -- Grammar -- Vocabulary -- Method -- The corpora -- Key feature analysis -- Keyword analysis -- Concordance and collocational analysis -- Findings -- Key feature analysis -- Results of keyword analysis -- Discourse functions of keywords -- Patterns of meanings of keywords -- Part-of-speech categories -- Concrete and abstract keywords -- Polysemy -- Collocation -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Chapter 8 Conclusion -- Introduction -- Key issues and findings -- The move from generalist to specialist teachers -- Register features -- Polysemy -- Other language issues -- Context -- Awareness of the linguistic challenges of transition -- Academic language and home learning environment -- Understanding the purpose of academic language -- Research on school language and transition -- Future research and ways forward -- References -- Index. |
| ISBN: | 9781000813661 1000813665 1000813509 9781000813500 1003081894 9781003081890 |
