Genre Pedagogy in Higher Education ─ The Slate Project

This book describes the linguistic and pedagogical dimensions of a large action research project that deployed and extended the current work on genre pedagogy to an on-line learning environment. In particular, it explores how genre-based pedagogy can be used to support the academic literacy development of non-English speaking background (NESB) students in tertiary educational institutions to develop their academic literacy practice. The book reports on work with the Department of Chinese, Translation & Linguistics (CTL) and the Department of Biology and Chemistry (BCH) in a 2-year project called the SLATE (Scaffolding Literacy in Academic and Tertiary Environments) project. It includes theoretically and practically-oriented material that can serve the needs of researchers and practitioners engaged with the literacy development of tertiary students in both English-speaking and non-English speaking countries.

Shoshana J. Dreyfus is a freelance researcher and teacher who currently lectures in the Linguistics Department at the University of Sydney, Australia. Her research interests include discourse analysis, language disorder and academic literacy, in the systemic functional and Sydney School models of language.

Sally Humphrey is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education, Australian Catholic University, Australia, and has worked for many years in educational semiotics and TESOL education. Sally is the co-writer of a number of textbooks, which introduce teachers to knowledge about language for discipline learning.

Ahmar Mahboob teaches linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia. Ahmar has worked in the areas of English language learning/teaching, teacher education, identity management, language policy & practice, minority languages, NNEST studies, pidgin and creole languages, Systemic Functional Linguistics, and World Englishes. Ahmar is currently the Editor of TESOL Quarterly.

James R. Martin is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia. His research interests include systemic theory, functional grammar, discourse semantics, register, genre, multimodality and critical discourse analysis. He was elected a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1998, and in April 2014 Shanghai Jiao Tong University opened its Martin Centre for Appliable Linguistics.