Abstract This article is a summary of the newly published book New Developments Ecological Discourse Analysis . On premise reviewing overall development ecolinguistics, this firstly develops Hallidayan approach and defines as an independent paradigm. Based on guiding principle ecosophy, “Diversity Harmony, Interaction Co-existence”, it then expands extends experiential, interpersonal, textual, ...

Thematic structure is an important concept in organizing ideas academic writing. Although numerous studies have focused on investigating how it realized students' writing, only a few focus thematic text across different proficiency levels. This article based study analyzing idea organization and development 24 high low-scoring essays through Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). It was qualita...

On the text surface the transition from one communicative goal to another can, for instance , be observed from the text layout. Where a new goal sets in, the p;i.ragral)h structure is often interrupted and a new paragraph begins. Also, the theme of the first sentence of such a new paragraph is in inost ca.ses not related to any element in the previous sentence, which is the case when subsequent...

Abstract To complement earlier studies of writing development in the BAWE corpus successful student ( Nesi & Gardner 2012 ; Staples et al. 2016 ), we examine Systemic Functional Linguistics notion Theme as used by L2 writers across first- and third-year two distinctive discourse types: persuasive/argumentative Discursive assignments soft disciplines Experimental report hard sciences. analys...

This study aimed at investigating shades of identity in TEFL textbooks. Most identity studies have focused on authors as knowledge producers. They have neglected authors' roles in constructing identity. Further, few scholars have considered disciplinary specific textbooks in their analyses of identity. Trying to bridge these gaps, we applied Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics to investi...