A whole school approach to SFL metalanguage and the explicit teaching of language for curriculum learning

Within schools, knowledge about the patterns of language in the various disciplines and, hence, a way of talking about language—a metalanguage—is often absent. This mainly stems from the lack of acceptance or awareness that language and knowledge are co-dependent. Many view accounting for language patterns in discipline knowledge and, therefore, a metalanguage as unnecessary. However, as argued in this paper, others value metalanguage. Focusing...