%0 Journal Article %1 oro5529 %A Coffin, Caroline %D 2006 %E Coffin, Caroline %J Journal of Curriculum Studies %K 2016_E852 genre history teaching_learning_cycle writingsupport %N 4 %P 413--429 %T Learning the language of school history: the role of linguistics in mapping the writing demands of the secondary school curriculum %U http://oro.open.ac.uk/5529/ %V 38 %X This paper reports on a research study which used the tools of functional linguistics to illuminate the writing requirements of the history curriculum in the context of Australian secondary schools. It shows how the resulting linguistic description was integrated into a sequence of teaching and learning activities through collaboration between linguist specialists and content/pedagogic specialists. These activities were designed to facilitate students? writing skills whilst simultaneously developing their historical knowledge. An independent evaluation of the approach pointed to positive changes in teachers? attitudes and behaviours regarding the role of language in learning history. Equally, students? writing improved, particularly in terms of its organisation and structure.

@article{oro5529, abstract = {This paper reports on a research study which used the tools of functional linguistics to illuminate the writing requirements of the history curriculum in the context of Australian secondary schools. It shows how the resulting linguistic description was integrated into a sequence of teaching and learning activities through collaboration between linguist specialists and content/pedagogic specialists. These activities were designed to facilitate students? writing skills whilst simultaneously developing their historical knowledge. An independent evaluation of the approach pointed to positive changes in teachers? attitudes and behaviours regarding the role of language in learning history. Equally, students? writing improved, particularly in terms of its organisation and structure. }, added-at = {2016-11-27T18:29:18.000+0100}, author = {Coffin, Caroline}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/23c529a6ebee430584803cdebbedc78d1/tudethedude}, description = {Discusses genre and how mapping, awareness of genre and teacher collaboration can help secondary school children improve writing skills. }, editor = {Coffin, Caroline}, interhash = {e97fa5f434255f581e707ab3069f419d}, intrahash = {3c529a6ebee430584803cdebbedc78d1}, journal = {Journal of Curriculum Studies}, keywords = {2016_E852 genre history teaching_learning_cycle writingsupport}, month = {August}, note = {This article usefully accompanied by Tim Moore's 'The Processes of learning ...' which also describes how genre awareness and mapping can help writing in three disciplines, including history. Particularly useful is the way Coffin sketches the different sub genres within history writing and how these are developed as the child progresses through the school curriculum. What I think is particularly useful is her discussion of how the 'Teaching-Learning cycle' can help students become aware of the requirements of 'institututionalised' genres that are new to them.}, number = 4, pages = {413--429}, timestamp = {2016-11-27T18:55:42.000+0100}, title = {Learning the language of school history: the role of linguistics in mapping the writing demands of the secondary school curriculum}, url = {http://oro.open.ac.uk/5529/}, volume = 38, year = 2006 }