This  case  study  analyzes  how  a  Taiwanese  EFL  teacher  participating  in  a  U.S.  based MATESOL program made sense of systemic functional linguistics (SFL) and genre based pedagogy  in  designing  and  reflecting  on  literacy  instruction  for  EFL  learners  in  Taiwan. Using  longitudinal  ethnographic  methods,  the  findings  indicate  that  this  teacher’s conceptualization  of  g...

The writing skill is often perceived as the most difficult language skill since it requires a higher level of productive language control than other skills (Celce-Murcia & Olshtain, 2000). The present study introduced a discourse-based framework for the teaching of writing on the basis Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). To this end, 60 students majoring in Teaching English as a Foreign Lang...

We present a methodology to analyze the linguistic evolution of scientific registers with data mining techniques, comparing the insights gained from shallow vs. linguistic features. The focus is on selected scientific disciplines at the boundaries to computer science (computational linguistics, bioinformatics, digital construction, microelectronics). The data basis is the English Scientific Tex...

This article explores how language is used to build community with the microblogging service, Twitter (www.twitter.com). Systemic Functional Linguistic (SFL), a theory of language use in its social context, is employed to analyse the structure and meaning of ‘tweets’ (posts to Twitter) in a corpus of 45,000 tweets collected in the 24 hours after the announcement of Barak Obama’s victory in the ...

The mass media opposed Donald Trump for his victory as president in the 2016 U.S election because he was considered involved exploiting voters’ personal data. This issue narrated “The Great Hack” movie. study attempted to scrutinize propaganda message potential through linguistic and non-linguistic (visual) components that movie investigate how both types of interplayed create intended message....

This qualitative study reports the results of sensemaking when teacher-practitioner inquiry in professional development (PD) is carried out for 120 Vietnamese K-12 and college teachers. The PD was designed to prepare teachers teach with different newly-approved English language coursebooks using a genre-based systemic functional linguistic approach (SFL). During scaffolds workshops, teaching st...

On the background of rising Intranet applications the automatic generation of adaptable, context-sensitive hypertexts becomes more and more important [El-Beltagy et al., 2001]. This observation contradicts the literature on hypertext authoring, where Information Retrieval techniques prevail, which disregard any linguistic and context-theoretical underpinning. As a consequence, resulting hyperte...

One of the texts has a complex meaning is advertisement, both print media advertisements and electronic advertisements. The complexity due to conveying messages in not only using language elements but also nonverbal other visual means. Therefore understand meaning, it necessary carry out multimodal analysis advertisement. This study aims Mie Sedaap Advertisements, advertisements, are that have ...

this study was framed on the theory of language socialisation and a systematic functional linguistic (sfl) approach. the aim of the study was to analyse the oral presentation discourse produced by an elemen- tary iranian english as second language (esl) postgraduate student in an american university four times (september/december, 2015 and march/september, 2016) over one year. the data were col...

Known for its rich culinary culture, China has five cities designated by the UNESCO’s Creative Cities Network as City of Gastronomy, including Chengdu, Shunde, Macau, Yangzhou, and Huai’an. Applicant should submit all documents in either English or French. Among them, cookery books, particular recipes play a key role preparation process. Recipes are genre regarded to be highly conventionalized ...