This book describes the discourse of biology from a systemic functional linguistic
perspective. It offers a detailed description of resources based on text analysis. The …

To understand science, students need to learn a large interconnected set of uncommon-
sense meanings. But despite decades of research, the precise nature of these meanings …

This series comprises research and practice into knowledge-building in education and
beyond. It focuses on Legitimation Code Theory or 'LCT', a cutting-edge approach rapidly …

Among the many subjects taught at primary, secondary and tertiary institutions physical
education (PE) has had limited discussion with respect to the language of PE. As an …

This book establishes a new theoretical and practical framework for multimodal disciplinary
literacy (MDL) fused with the subject-specific science pedagogies of senior high school …

This paper revisits the register variable field in systemic functional linguistics (SFL), in
relation to the concept of 'semantic density'in Legitimation Code Theory (LCT). In registers of …

The ability to construe and to interpret cause–effect relations is critical to the task of
knowledge building in science. It is essential to understanding investigative processes and …

Tutkimuksessa tarkastellaan termien selittämistä tietokirjoissa eli sitä, kuinka
tieteenalakohtaiseen käyttöön erikoistuneiden ilmausten merkitystä rakennetaan …

This Special Issue of ESP Today concerns the teaching of disciplinary literacies in tertiary
ESP settings. ESP involves research and practice in the teaching and learning of English to …

Science is significant. Faced with the climate emergency, global pandemics and proliferating
threats to life on Earth, that significance should go without saying. However, science is under …