Rosalind Ivanić (born 1949) is a Yugoslav-born

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linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguis ...

. She is currently an

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at the Department of Linguistics and English Language of

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, United Kingdom. Her research focuses on

applied linguistics Applied linguistics is an interdisciplinary field which identifies, investigates, and offers solutions to language-related real-life problems. Some of the academic fields related to applied linguistics are education, psychology, communication rese ...

with a special focus on

literacy Literacy in its broadest sense describes "particular ways of thinking about and doing reading and writing" with the purpose of understanding or expressing thoughts or ideas in written form in some specific context of use. In other words, huma ...

intertextuality Intertextuality is the shaping of a text's meaning by another text, either through deliberate compositional strategies such as quotation, allusion, calque, plagiarism, translation, pastiche or parody,Gerard Genette (1997) ''Paratexts'p.18/ref>H ...

, multimodal communication,

adult literacy Adult education, distinct from child education, is a practice in which adults engage in systematic and sustained self-educating activities in order to gain new forms of knowledge, skills, attitudes, or values. Merriam, Sharan B. & Brockett, Ralp ...

, educational linguistics, critical language awareness,

punctuation Punctuation (or sometimes interpunction) is the use of spacing, conventional signs (called punctuation marks), and certain typographical devices as aids to the understanding and correct reading of written text, whether read silently or aloud. An ...

, and

second language writing Second language writing is the study of writing performed by non-native speakers/writers of a language as second language, a second or foreign language. In addition to disseminating research through the ''Journal of Second Language Writing'', schol ...

. Along with Theo van Leeuwen and David Barton, she is considered one of the most prominent researchers on literacy.

Career

Ivanić taught English language, literacy and study skills to children and adults in

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and

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between 1970 and 1985. She was director of the Language Support Unit at

Westminster Kingsway College Westminster Kingsway College is a large college for further education in central London with centres in King's Cross in Camden, together with Victoria and Soho centres in Westminster. Founded in 2000 and having origins dating back to 1910, the ...

, United Kingdom. She was a lecturer in adult literacy, language and learning at

Garnett College Garnett College was a higher education college in London which trained lecturers in further and higher education colleges. Its main focus was on teaching towards post-graduate qualifications awarded by the Council for National Academic Awards (CN ...

for teachers in further and higher education before joining the staff at Lancaster in 1986. Ivanić was a full-time member of the Department of Linguistics and English Language of

between 1986 and 2008. She has been an Associate Director of the Literacy Research Centre of Lancaster University since 2002 and she was appointed

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in September 2008.

Research

Ivanić's research focused on

, applications of Theo van Leeuwen's Theory of Representation, academic discourse practices, writing practices in both academic and non-academic settings, the link between research and practice, multimodal communication,

, educational linguistics, critical language awareness,

, and

. In 1994 Ivanić, along with Lancaster Literacy Research Group including David Barton, claimed that literacy is not a skill but a set of practices which is culturally shaped and embedded in social action. In a research article, published in the ''

Journal of Second Language Writing The ''Journal of Second Language Writing'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal in the fields of linguistics and language education. Its scope encompasses all aspects of second and foreign language writing, including writing instruction and assessme ...

'' in 2001, Ivanić claimed that writing (lexical, the syntactic, the organisational and the material aspects of writing construct identity) conveys a representation of the writer. In a research article, entitled Discourses of writing and learning to write and published in Language and Education, Ivanić proposed a meta-analysis of theory and research about writing and writing pedagogy. She identified six discourses: # skills discourse # creativity discourse # process discourse # genre discourse # social practices discourse # sociopolitical discourse

Publications

Ivanić has publications in several major journals such as ''

'', ''

Literary and Linguistic Computing ''Digital Scholarship in the Humanities'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal of the European Association for Digital Humanities that covers all aspects of computing and information technology applied to Arts and Humanities research. It is one of t ...

'', and ''

Language and Education Language is a structured system of communication. The structure of a language is its grammar and the free components are its vocabulary. Languages are the primary means by which humans communicate, and may be conveyed through a variety of met ...

''.

Bibliography

Books

*Tseng, M. L., & Ivanic, R. (2005). Understanding the relationships between learning and teaching : an analysis of the contribution of applied linguistics. London: National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy.

Articles

*Smith, N., McEnery, T., & Ivanic, R. (1998). Issues in transcribing a corpus of children's hand-written projects. ''Literary and Linguistic Computing, 13''(4), 217–225. *Camps, D., & Ivanic, R. (2001). I am how I sound: Voice as self-representation in L2 writing. ''

, 10''(1-2), 3-33. do

*Bolitho, R., Carter, R., Hughes, R., Masuhara, H., Tomlinson, B., & Ivanic, R. (2003). Ten questions about language awareness. '' English Language Teaching Journal, 49''(4), 251–259. *Ivanic, R. (2004). Discourses of writing and learning to write. ''

, 18''(3), 220–245.

References

External links

* 1949 births Living people Applied linguists Women linguists Linguists from the United Kingdom Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University {{Authority control