Grounding Systemic Functional Linguistics and Critical Theory in Deepening ELL's Discipline Knowledge and Exploring the Praxis of Teaching and Researching Disciplinary Literacy Development: A Book Review

In the book, Teaching and Researching ELLs’ Disciplinary Literacies: SFL in Action Context of US School Reform (2019), Meg Gebhard, professor Applied Linguistics co-director Secondary English Education Program at University Massachusetts, Amherst, USA, provides a comprehensive description to second language researchers, multilingual learners, teachers, teacher educators how Halliday's Systemic Functional (SFL) can be applied give ELLs access literacies they need succeed across curriculum. Throughout chapters, Gebhard convincing evidence that mastering their various grammars genres (text types) is equally important. This well-referenced book valuable resource for practitioners who want expand understandings works best support its development school settings. offers straightforward introduction SFL-based literacy instruction discourse analysis. The work distinctive use highly contextualized examples teachers students utilize texts also unique because as reader moves through suggested practices get more detailed begin take into account institutional community conversations shape teaching learning happen our public schools.