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asking questions rather than the teacher as is present within genre-based pedagogy. Dufficy describes this as being limiting to the thought purposes of the child and presents that children from a multi-language background may not be as responsive to this system of questioning and answering as it is not culturally appropriate to them. Dufficy aligns scaffolding in genre-based pedagogy with that of a building and through this

239: 58:. The method and practice of teaching established by the Sydney School encourages corrective and supportive feedback in the education of writing practices for students, particularly regarding second language students. The Sydney School works to reflectively institutionalise a pedagogy that is established to be conducive to students of lower socio-economic backgrounds, 315:

social processes. J. R. Martin describes that, "As functional linguists we interpreted genres from a semantic perspective as patterns of meaning." The action research undertaken by the Sydney School led to innovations in teaching practices associated with the development of writing. Research into the

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and others owing to its emphasis on primary and high school learning rather than tertiary education. Hyon finds the Sydney School to be effective in its provision of instructional frameworks for teachers as well as the connections made between the formal and functional aspects of writing genres, the

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involving social class having distinct effects upon students' success or failure within the education system especially influenced J. R. Martin's early work within the Sydney School. Bernstein refers to this as being a battle about pedagogy and curriculum between old and new middle class. Bernstein

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Paul Dufficy identifies an issue of genre-based pedagogy's practical application in multilingual classrooms and describes the style of learning as lending itself to an establishment of a hierarchy in learning and limiting interactions. Dufficy emphasises the importance of interaction and the child

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improving pedagogical practices and therefore democratising the classroom is pivotal. He proffers that classroom democracy can be enhanced through successful literacy pedagogy that engages students and promotes high levels of literacy. This is the goal of the Sydney School's pedagogy, particularly

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Dr David Rose is a significant researcher within the Sydney School and emphasises interdisciplinary approaches to language education. Rose is currently the Director of the Reading to Learn Literacy program which has become renowned globally and aims to guide teacher's pedagogical practices in

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syllabus that the theories of the Sydney School began to make an impact on pedagogy. The title 'Sydney School' was given to the body of research however became quickly outdates as the study began to extended nationally. By 2000 the Sydney School had firmly become attained international reach.

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In the early 1990s this application of writing pedagogy extended to incorporate reading literacy and was applied in high school education and eventually, later in the decade, expanded to encompass tertiary levels of study. Sydney School's theory has permeated international pedagogy including

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states that initially scaffolding is created with the goal of removing it after its development to reveal a building, or a child's learning and progression, however this model may not be applicable in multi-language classrooms. A 2001 article by Karen Dooley investigated the application of

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phonology. This theory serves as the basis for the Sydney School. Michael Halliday organised the Working Conference on Language in Education at the University of Sydney which is cited as being where the work that resulted in development of the Sydney School first got underway.

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perspective to teach through patterns of meaning and emphasised the importance of the acquisition of a holistic literacy in various text types or genres. ‘Sydney School’ is not, however, an entirely accurate moniker as the pedagogy has evolved beyond metropolitan

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Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday founded the Department of Linguistics at the University of Sydney in 1976. Before establishing the Sydney Linguistics department Emeritus Professor Michael Halliday held chairs at the

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and the point at which pupils should be exposed to these genres within their education. This analysis of genre as a means to develop the ways in which writing is taught in school provided teachers with

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Dooley, Karen. (Feb 2002). "Genre-based Pedagogy and Cooperative Learning: Integrating Strategies to Achieve High Quality Outcomes for ESL Students in Mainstream Primary School Classes."

262:, genre, and appraisal. Martin was in attendance at the Working Conference on Language in Education which he describes as being the beginning of the Sydney School's development. 254:

is one of the primary contributors to the Sydney School. In 1979 Martin began lecturing in the Faculty of Applied Linguistics in conjunction with the Faculty of Education at the

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Devo Devrim describes the opportunities for learning supplied within the feedback emphasised pedagogy of the Sydney School as being richer than that of the feedback in the

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The Sydney School is a genre-based literacy pedagogy that began developing in August 1979 at the Working Conference on Language in Education. This conference, organised by

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Shum, Mark Shiu-kee, Chung Pui Tai and Dan Shi. (2018). “Using ‘Reading to Learn’ (R2L) pedagogy to teach discussion genre to non-Chinese-speaking students in Hong Kong.”

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classrooms and through this research into the educational practices he noted the impact of colonialism on South African students. Rose emphasises that in order to build a

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Mwinlaaru, Isaac N. and Winfred Wenhui Xuan. (2016). “A survey of studies in systemic functional language description and typology.” Functional Linguistics.

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Mwinlaaru, Isaac N. and Winfred Wenhui Xuan. (2016). “A survey of studies in systemic functional language description and typology.” Functional Linguistics.

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in education, consisting of a removed approach that was focused primarily upon recount and observation-based writing. It was not until 1995 when the NSW

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classrooms, the implications of which have been uncovered by Sunny Hyon. Hyon discerns the Sydney School as being different to the writing pedagogy of

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were formed. The significant developments of the Sydney School throughout the 1980s were based upon the assessment of primary schools’ treatment of

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Devrim, D. Y. (2014). “Theorizing written feedback as a mediation tool within the Sydney school's genre pedagogy: A focus on ZPD and scaffolding.”

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Devrim, D. Y. (2014). “Theorizing written feedback as a mediation tool within the Sydney school's genre pedagogy: A focus on ZPD and scaffolding.”

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Devrim, D. Y. (2014). “Theorizing written feedback as a mediation tool within the Sydney school's genre pedagogy: A focus on ZPD and scaffolding.”

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understanding of teaching pedagogy uncovered limitations in practice. Initially, emphasis was given only to a writing in the form of a recount

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Emilia, Emi and Tazanfal Tehseem. (2013). “A synthesis of approaches to teaching writing: A case study in an Australian primary school.”

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Cai, Jing. (2016). “An exploratory study on an integrated genre-based approach for the instruction of academic lexical phrases.”

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as being the place at which ideas about genre analysis as a lens to observe the way students are taught to write in

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Dufficy, Paul. (Jun 2000). "Through the lens of scaffolding: Genre pedagogy and talk in multilingual classrooms."

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Dufficy, Paul. (Jun 2000). "Through the lens of scaffolding: Genre pedagogy and talk in multilingual classrooms."

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Dufficy, Paul. (Jun 2000). "Through the lens of scaffolding: Genre pedagogy and talk in multilingual classrooms."

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Rose, David. (2019). “Writing as linguistic mastery: the development of genre-based literacy pedagogy.” In

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Rose, David. (2019). “Writing as linguistic mastery: the development of genre-based literacy pedagogy.” In

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Rose, David. (2019). “Writing as linguistic mastery: the development of genre-based literacy pedagogy.” In

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Michael Halliday, influencer of the pedagogy of the Sydney School, at his 90th birthday symposium, 2015.

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levels of students. The Sydney School's pedagogy broadened the traditional observation-based writing in

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Astorga, María Cristina. (2007). “Teaching Academic Writing in the EFL Context: Redesigning Pedagogy.”

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Rose, David. (2018). “Languages of Schooling: embedding literacy learning with genre-based pedagogy.”

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Rose, David. (2018). “Languages of Schooling: embedding literacy learning with genre-based pedagogy.”

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Rose, David. (2018). “Languages of Schooling: embedding literacy learning with genre-based pedagogy.”

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The Sydney School takes into consideration the types of genre that were necessary to incorporate into

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Rose, David. (2005). "Democratising the classroom: a literacy pedagogy for the new generation."

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Rose, David. (2005). "Democratising the classroom: a literacy pedagogy for the new generation."

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of writing. The Sydney School extends study beyond the recount text type to include imaginative

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identifies these classes as representing traditional and progressive pedagogy respectively.

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Aboriginal language and identified this indigenous language as having more resemblance to

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genre-based study in ESL classrooms and analyses that it is effective in its teaching of

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1979 at the Working Conference on Language in Education held at the University of Sydney

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A photo of Professor J. R. Martin, linguist and professor at the University of Sydney.

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classrooms. In Dr Rose's early career as an academic and researcher he studied the

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universities to being adopted nationally and, by 2000, was exported to centres in

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