Journal Archives
2022 · 2
What is Language Anyway? A View on Teaching English Proficiency in Higher Education
When training students at a tertiary level, we expect them to develop into expert users of language (Byrnes et al., 2006). This implies they are able to deal with linguistic problems of both a theoretical and a practical…
Multimodal, Digital Artefacts as Learning Tools in a University Subject-Specific English Language Course
This paper explores the practice of using multimodal, digital assessment tasks assigned to students of an English for Architects and Civil Engineers course at a university in Germany. Students were tasked with creating m…
Modelling of the Genre Short Story for Teaching Purposes: An Approach from a Systemic Functional Perspective
This article is framed in a research project called “Literature from a linguistic perspective: modelling and teaching of literary narrative genres and response genres” carried out within the framework of Systemic Functio…
Theme in English Native and Learner Writing
This study explores Theme and its presence in English L1 and L2 writing. Adopting the Hallidayan definition as a point of departure, Theme is characterised by its position and its orienting function. Drawing on Berry’s (…
Multimodal Curriculum Design: Culturally Sustaining SFL Praxis with Multilingual Youth in Out-of-School Contexts
This paper provides a description of the multimodal curriculum design and meaning making processes in what we call a Culturally Sustaining Systemic Functional Linguistics (CS SFL) praxis, developed in the context of an i…
Using SFL in Linguistically Responsive Instruction with Multilingual Youth: A Self-Study
Situated in a community-based summer enrichment program for multilingual, refugee-background youth, the purpose of the present self-study was to explore how teachers could draw upon systemic functional linguistics (SFL)…