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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL)"”.
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A sociosemantic examination of secondary English teacher written feedback
<p>The purpose of this study was to provide a functional linguistic based description of teacher writing comments in secondary ELA classrooms. Based within a case study methodology, this study used analytical tools from Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and Legitimation Code Theory (LCT) in …
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The text compositional architecture of university lectures: an exploration of genre and periodicity in spoken academic discourse
… In doing so, it employs techniques developed by Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) to investigate how lectures are structured in terms of “genre” and the related issue of what is termed “hierarchy of periodicity”. It applies these techniques to the analysis of a small selection of university …
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Systemic Functional Linguistics in the Community College Composition Class: A Multimodal Approach to Teaching Composition Using the Metalanguage of SFL
… understand the affordances and limitations of a systemic functional linguistics (SFL) approach to teaching composition at the community college level. The study took place over the course of a semester in two developmental college composition classes using the language of SFL to teach writing …
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An examination of the concept of "genre" as a tool for the design of speaking activities for English for specific purposes (ESP)
… used for studying written interaction in ESP and SFL are applicable to researching spoken communication. The aim of the theoretical part was to conduct discourse analysis of a corpus of extracts from TV discussion programmes, selected to exemplify the genre, in order to reveal phonological and …
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Conjunction is more than just a grammatical resource: a comparative study of conjunctions in U.S. and Chinese mathematics lessons
… mathematical statements. Borrowing from the systemic functional linguistics (SFL) perspective, conjunction analysis was conducted on 13 U.S. lessons and 17 Chinese lessons to examine differences in the frequency and use of conjunctions between U.S. and Chinese lessons. Findings indicated that …
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An examination of positioning in editorials, business and sports commentaries in the Lesotho weekly newspaper, Public Eye
… approaches to media production and media genres, Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), CDA, and strategies of positioning. In Chapter 3, I describe the qualitative methodology on which my data collection and analysis were premised. For my analysis I used the CDA as well as Fairclough's …
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The IPAD and the Development of Speaking and Writing in the Secondary EFL Classroom
… of written data was also informed by Hallidayan Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), and a Task-based language teaching (TBLT) framework was used to design writing and speaking tasks. Results show a positive influence on student motivation towards the performance of speaking tasks and …
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Face-work and identities in a discussion about xenophobia
… a combination of theoretical frameworks from Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and Discourse Analysis. In particular, the SFL theory of modality(Halliday 1994) and Engagement (Martin and White 2005) and Goffman�s (1999[1967]) notion of face were used as tools of analysis.The analysis …
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Face-work and identities in a discussion about xenophobia
… a combination of theoretical frameworks from Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and Discourse Analysis. In particular, the SFL theory of modality(Halliday 1994) and Engagement (Martin and White 2005) and Goffman�s (1999[1967]) notion of face were used as tools of analysis.The analysis …
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Fulfilling the law apart from the law: A discourse approach to Paul and the law in Romans
… an integrative model of understanding language--systemic-functional linguistics (SFL)--that forms the foundation of this study and the central pillar for the application of that theory--corpus linguistics using the annotation database of Opentext.org project. Chapter 3 develops a number of tools …
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Walking a linguistic tightrope: learner development in writing job application letters
… module, in which the pedagogy was informed by a Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) approach to genre. While much genre-based research in educational settings examines pedagogic practices, Cheng (2006) urges genre researchers to focus on learner development. In this project, learner development …
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Senior secondary English in New South Wales: Linguistic and epistemic perspectives
… of subject English are explored, using Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and Legitimation Code Theory (LCT) as theoretical frameworks. Analysis revealed that subject English values both knowledge (of language and literature) and knowers (as sensitive and appreciative readers), and …
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Science Classroom Discourse for Fourth Grade English Language Learners' Scientific Literacy Development
… classroom discourse, using the frameworks of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) discourse analysis and intertextual analysis, to understand the nature of science classroom discourse and challenges for ELLs as well as support the teacher provided or lack thereof in response to the identified …
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The role of translation in shaping media and political discourses in times of conflict : the Syrian "Spring" in context
… generally pertains to the realm of Critical Text Linguistics (CTL) and is located within a translational context. It considers "language as a form of social practice", (Fairclough 1989: 20) and "social behaviour", (Halliday 1978: 12-13) that cannot be studied in isolation from its socio-cultural …
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Independent clause Sesotho personal names as texts in context: a systemic functional linguistics approach
… names as authentic social discourse using the Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) theory. It sought to analyze their structure and map them to social functions to demonstrate that they are enacted messages in socio-cultural context of Basotho. It used a form-meaning approach to interpret …
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Communicating Vision : a Linguistic Analysis of Leadership Speeches
… This study consists of an application of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), including Genre Theory, and an extension of SFL, Appraisal Theory, on four visionary speeches in the field of political discourse—Lincoln‘s Gettysburg Address, Churchill‘s ―We Shall Fight on the Beaches,‖ …
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Misrepresentation and Construction of Meaning in Translation of News Texts in the Context of Conflict and Intervention: the Application of Systemic-Functional Linguistics
… The final aim is to assess the applicability of Systemic-Functional Linguistics (SFL) to translated Russian news texts in contrast to their potential sources. This is in order to analyse the ideology of representation constructed in translated Russian news texts and examine cases of …
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Modes of feedback in ESL writing: Implications of shifting from text to screencast
… paper argues for appraisal an outgrowth of systemic functional linguistics (SFL) focused on evaluative language and interpersonal meaning, as a framework for understanding interpersonal differences in modes of feedback through an analysis of 16 text and 16 video feedback files from Paper 1. …