Reading nominalizations in senior science
Volume: 42, Pages: 100793 - 100793
Published: Nov 1, 2019
Abstract
The paper examines the challenges faced by senior Biology students in reading ‘nominalizations’ in textbook materials and illustrates how the challenges can be addressed through pedagogical activities. The study draws on emerging descriptions of field and discourse semantics in Systemic Functional Linguistics that are inspired by Halliday's distinction between ‘live’ and ‘dead’ grammatical metaphors. It first presents a metalanguage to...
Paper Details
Title
Reading nominalizations in senior science
Published Date
Nov 1, 2019
Volume
42
Pages
100793 - 100793
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