Anne McCabe, Ph.D.

Department of English

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Education

Ph.D. Language Studies. Aston University, Birmingham, U.K.
M.Sc. Teaching English. Aston University, Birmingham, U.K.
B.A. Spanish. Clarke College

Practice Areas

• Systemic Functional Linguistics
• Contrastive Rhetoric
• Text Linguistics/Analysis
• Teaching Writing
• English for Academic Purposes
• Teacher Development

Publications and Media Placements

Books

McCabe, A. (2021) A Functional Linguistic Perspective on Developing Language. London: Routledge.

Liu, X. & McCabe, A. (2017) Attitudinal Evaluation in Chinese University Students' English Writing - A Contrastive Perspective. Springer.

McCabe, A. (2017) An Introduction to Linguistics and Language Studies: Second Edition. London, Equinox.

McCabe, A., O'Donnell, M. & Whittaker, R. (Eds) (2007) Advances in Language and Education. London: Continuum.

Whittaker, R., O'Donnell, M. & McCabe, A. (Eds) (2006) Language & Literacy: Functional Approaches. London: Continuum.

Book Chapters

Whittaker, R. & McCabe A. (2020) Writing on history in a Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) context: Development of grammatical metaphor as evidence of language learning. In Machón, R.M. (Ed.) Writing and Language Learning: Advancing Research Agendas (pp. 309-332). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

McCabe, A. & Alonso Belmonte, I. (2019) Challenging the concept of pure objectivity in British and Spanish hard news reports: The case of the 2006 Lebanon War. In Sancho Guinda, C. (Ed.) Engagement in Professional Genres (pp. 67-85). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

McCabe, A. (2017) SFL and language teaching. In Bartlett, T. & O'Grady, G. (Eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics, pp. 591-604. London and New York: Routledge.

McCabe, A. & Whittaker, R. (2017) Genre and appraisal in CLIL history texts: developing the voice of the historian. In Llinares, A. & Morton, T. Applied Linguistics Perspectives on CLIL, pp. 105-24. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Morton, T. & McCabe, A. (2016) Journey of three digitized texts: Entextualization and recontextualization in a corpus study. In Gardner, S. & Alsop, Sian (Eds.) Systemic Functional Linguistics in the Digital Age, pp. 296-309. London: Equinox.

McCabe, A. & Morton, T. (2016) Longitudinal study of two CLIL classrooms in Spain: Results from written and spoken data. In Papaja, K. and Swiatek, A. (eds.) Modernizing Educational Practice Perspectives in Content and Language Integrated Learning, pp. 149-69. Cambridge Scholar Publishing.

Alonso Belmonte, I., Chornet Roses, D. & McCabe, A. (2013) Benefit or burden? Press representation of immigrant workers during the Spanish economic recession. De Rycker, T. (ed.) Discourse and Crisis: Critical Perspectives (pp. 363-393). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Alonso Belmonte, I., Chornet-Roses, D., & McCabe, A. (2013) Ideological stances in internet users' discursive construction of immigration, race and racism: An online newspaper case study. In Martinez Lirola, M. (Ed.), Discourses On Immigration In Times Of Economic Crisis: A Critical Perspective (pp. 59-85). Cambridge Scholar Publishing.

McCabe, A. (2009) Teaching writing outside the U.S.: A different composition. In Kolapo, F. (ed) Immigrant Academics and Cultural Challenges in a Global Environment (pp. 151-185). Youngstown, NY: Cambria Press.

Journal Articles

Llinares, A. & McCabe, A. (2023) Systemic functional linguistics: the perfect match for content and language integrated learning. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 26(3), 245–250. https://doi.org/10.1080/13670050.2019.1635985

Whittaker, R. & McCabe, A.  (2023) Expressing evaluation across disciplines in primary and secondary CLIL writing: a longitudinal study. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 26(3), 345–362. https://doi.org/10.1080/13670050.2020.1798869

McCabe, A. (2017) Knowledge and interaction in on-line discussions in Spanish by advanced language learners. Computer Assisted Language Learning, 30(5): 409-431.

McCabe, A., Gledhill, C. and Liu, X. (Special Issue Guest Editors) (2015) TESOL International Journal: Special Issue on Systemic Functional Linguistics and English Language Teaching, 10(1).

McCabe, A., Gledhill, C. and Liu, X. (2015) Systemic Functional Linguistics and English Language Teaching. TESOL International Journal, 10(1): 1-10.

Whittaker, R., Llinares, A. & McCabe, A. (2011) Written discourse development in CLIL at secondary school. Language Teaching Research: Special Issue: Content-based Language Teaching (Roy Lyster & Susan Ballinger, eds), 15(3), 343-362.

Alonso Belmonte, I., McCabe, A. & Chornet-Roses, D. (2010) In their own words: The construction of the image of the immigrant in Peninsular Spanish broadsheets and freesheets. Discourse & Communication, 4(3): 227-242.

Research Project

Member: 2019-2021 ‘LongAd-CLIL: A longitudinal corpus-based analysis of advancedness in CLIL: subject literacies, classroom practices and participant perspectives from primary through secondary education / Estudio longitudinal de capacidades lingüísticas avanzadas en aicle: lenguaje de las disciplinas, practica en el aula y perspectivas de los participantes’. Project financed by the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (RTI2018-094961-B-I00). Principal Investigator: Dr. Ana Llinares García, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

Honors and Awards