This qualitative study focuses on Grade 6 students’ possibilities to engage in disciplinary writing practices history teaching a school located socially disadvantaged and linguistically diverse area. The aim is contribute knowledge about how students negotiate different literacy expectations the teaching. researcher used ethnographic methods follow one teacher two groups of for 12 weeks’ Vasa e...

This paper summarizes the results of a study based on students´ academic writings. The is grounded Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) theory and pedagogy, in particular 3x3 matrix, SFL framework successfully implemented Australian schools (Humphrey, Martin, Dreyfus & Mahboob, 2010) Teaching Learning Cycle (Callaghan Rothery, 1988). took place at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, with 33 stu...

this study explored nominalized expression types in an applied linguistics book and a biology book as 2 distinct disciplines. the books were carefully read, the nominalized expression types were identified, the frequencies of the nominalization types were counted, and eventually chi-square was administered. results revealed no significant difference in using nominalization. furthermore, the den...

BACKGROUND The evaluation of smoke-free legislation (SFL) in the UK examined the impacts on exposure to second-hand smoke, workers' attitudes and changes in respiratory health. Studies that investigate changes in the health of groups of people often use self-reported symptoms. Due to the subjective nature it is of interest to determine whether workers' attitudes towards the change in their work...

This study focuses on paratexts as recontextualization tools, specifically prefaces written for (re)translations, and problematizes Turkish (re)translations of modernist novels in English, which, reasons morality, encountered legal difficulties, were stigmatized, banned, or confiscated the source culture. Recontextualization resonates with (re)producing ideologies, exposing various agents' deli...

language has different functions and uses in society and social phenomena in functionalist grammar. so, linguistic phenomena can be studied through this approach. on the basis of functional theory, patterns of experience manifest in form of processes through idealistic meta-functions. accordingly, we can realize the linguisticbehavior of the poet or the writer in world representation studying d...