This volume explores how educators conceptualized and implemented critical approaches to systemic functional linguistics that support bilingual students in appropriating and challenging dominant knowledge domains in K-16 contexts. The researchers exhibit a shared commitment to enacting a culturally sustaining SFL praxis that validates multilingual meaning making, pushes against social inequity, and fosters creative re-mixing of available semiotic resources. It should prove a valuable resource for students, teachers and researchers interested in applied linguistics, education and critical theory.

Offers valuable perspectives on SFL-pedagogy from researchers and active teachers Looks at teaching emergent bilinguals from a culturally-sustaining perspective that improves educational outcomes Provides concrete strategies supported by evidence and experience for teaching literacies Offers a new working definition of critical SFL praxis that contributes to research on genre-based pedagogies and SFL theory

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Introduction.- Transforming Normative Discourses of Schooling: Critical Systemic Functional Linguistics Praxis by Ruth Harman.- Glossary of Key Terms.- Part 1: Reflection Literacy and Critical Language Awareness Linguistic Tools for Supporting Emergent Critical.- Language Awareness in the Elementary School by Mary Schleppegrell and Jason Moore.- 'We Can Speak to the World': Applying Meta-Linguistic Knowledge for Specialized and Reflexive Literacies by Sally Humphrey.- Student Use of SFL Resources on Fantasy, Canonical, and Non-Fiction Texts: Critical Literacy in the High School ELA Classroom by Amber M. Simmons.- Critical SFL Praxis Principles in English Language Arts Education: Engaging Pre-Service Teachers in Reflective Practice by Mariana Achugar and Brian D. Carpenter.- Critical SFL Praxis Among Teacher Candidates: Using Systemic Functional Linguistics in K-12 Teacher Education by Luciana C. de Oliveira and Mary A. Avalos.- Part 2: Register Variation and Equity.- Mainstream Classrooms as Engaging Spaces for Emergent Bilinguals: SEF Theory, Catalyst for Change by María Estela Brisk and Marcela Ossa Parra.- Translanguaging in Systemic Functional Linguistics: A Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy for Writing in Secondary Schools by Nihal Khote.- Paraphrastic Academic Writing: Entry Point for First Generation Advanced Bilingual College Students by Andrés Ramírez.- Part 3: Multimodal Designing.- Critical Praxis, Design and Reflection Literacy: A Lesson in Multimodality by Diane Potts.- Multimodal Mediation and Argumentative Writing: A Case Study of a Multilingual Learner's Metalanguage Awareness Development by Dongshin Shin.- Conclusion.- Bringing it All Together: Critical Take(s) on Systemic Functional linguistics by Ruth Harman.