Publications

Publication details [#27102]

Young, Richard and Hanh Thi Nguyen. 2002. Modes of meaning in high school science. Applied Linguistics 23 (3) : 348–372.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

high school | meaning | scientific discussion | teacher | textbook

Place, Publisher

Oxford University Press

ISBN

0142-6001

Journal WWW

http://www3.oup.co.uk/applij/contents/

Annotation

This paper uses the microanalytic framework of systemic functional grammar to compare two different instructional modes, i.e. interactive teacher talk and a physics textbook, presenting the same scientific topic in a US high school physics class.