Language in Action

Maria Estela Brisk is Professor of Education at Boston College. Mary J. Schleppegrell is Professor of Education at the University of Michigan.

Introduction
Mary J. Schleppegrell and María Estela Brisk

Part I: Studies in Elementary and Secondary Education  
1. Theory Inspired Best Practices: Elementary Teachers Appropriate SFL Theory to Inform their Practice
María Estela Brisk

2. The Role of Meaningful Sentence-level Metalanguage:  Insights from Children’s Thinking with Functional Grammar
Mary J. Schleppegrell and Carrie Symons, Michigan State University

3. From Buttocks to Seminal Muscles: SFL-based Physical Education
Ruth Mulvad, National Centre for Literacy, Denmark

4. A Geometry Teacher’s Actions for Engaging Students in Mathematizing from Real-World Contexts: A Linguistic Analysis
Gloriana González, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Part II: Studies in Student and Faculty Development with Respect to Academic Writing at the University Level 
5. Exploring New Perspectives and Degrees of Delicacy in Appraisal Studies: An Analysis of Engagement Resources in Academic Discourse in Spanish
Julio César Valerdi Zárate, National Autonomous University of Mexico

6. A Functional Study of Transitivity and Attitude in Student Writing in Spanish across Disciplines: Making Connections
Natalia Ignatieva, Daniel Rodríguez-Vergara and Victoria Zamudio Jasso, all at National Autonomous University of Mexico

7. Scaffolding the Wave: Supporting Student Teachers in Professional Academic Writing Through LCT and SFL
Anna-Vera Meidell Sigsgaard and Susanne Karen Jacobsen, both at University College of Copenhagen

8. Scaffolding Argument Writing in History: The Evolution of an Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Silvia Pessoa, Thomas D. Mitchell and Aaron Jacobson, all at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar

Part III: Studies in Translation 
9. Translation as Re-instantiation: An Investigation of Verbal Projection
Hailing Yu, Hunan University, and Canzhong Wu, Macquarie University
 
10. Building and Enhancing Intercultural Communication in Museum Spaces through SFL and Translation Studies
Marina Manfredi, University of Bologna