Genre and technicality in analogical explanations: Hong Kong's English language textbooks for junior secondary science
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- 作者：Corinne Maxwell-Reid ; cmaxwellreid@cuhk.edu.hk" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding authorAuthor Vitae ; Kwok-chi Lau laukwokchi@cuhk.edu.hk" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding authorAuthor Vitae
- 关键词：Secondary science ; Textbooks ; Genre ; Explanation ; Analogy ; Systemic functional linguistics
- 刊名：Journal of English for Academic Purposes
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：September 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：23
- 期：Complete
- 页码：31-46
- 全文大小：2084 K
文摘
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Popular textbooks differed in their use of image and text in a water flow analogy.
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All the textbooks used both text and image but only one included an explanation.
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Only one textbook modelled the construction of technicality in text.
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Books without an explanation text were less able to convey sequence or cause.
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Other genres and images presented a more static, component-oriented perspective.