The paper takes a sociocultural approach that involves observation of development in three planes of analysis corresponding to personal, interpersonal, and community processes.
An article on identity, language learning and social change that reviews the poststructuralist theories of language, power and identity looking into new theories of language learning.
Draws on recent developments in sociocultural theories of learning and SFL to analyse and articulare ESL pedagogy, and to present a model of scaffolding resulting from the research.
Focus on the sociocultural approach involving observation of development in three waves of analysis relating to personal, interpersonal, and community processes.
Use of Systemic Functional Linguistics as an analytical tool to evaluate students’ writing and to consider the relationship between linguistic links across sentences and textual coherence.