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Genre and Literacy-Modeling Context in Educational Linguistics

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James R. Martin
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Christie (1992), in the previous year's volume of the Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, reviewed literacy initiatives in Australia which drew on systemic functional linguistics, focusing on three themes: differences between speech and writing, written genres, and the study of spoken language. This paper is designed to complement her review, highlighting ongoing research within the same general theoretical framework, and focusing on the general question of modeling context in educational linguistics.

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Approaches to Second Language Teaching
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Annual Review of Applied Linguistics , Volume 13 , March 1992 , pp. 141 - 172
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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