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...

This paper reports on a case study from the Solomon Islands where national testing indicates poor performance in English literacy, particularly ability to write continuous text. Analysis of sample scripts was undertaken using Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) reveal weakness elaborate events within writing. Teaching and learning materials were subsequently developed results analysis, drawin...

Teacher talk plays an important role in second-language classroom interaction. Studies are informed by multiple theories and yet could be classified under two general approaches, i.e., cognitive social. The approaches provide different but complementary perspectives on the of teacher interaction, with a focus either learners' change or their social participation. A conversation between them is ...

Forest management practices have been addressed widely in the forestry discipline but are rarely considered from a linguistic perspective. Linguistic exploration of construction meaning forest discourses helps provide greater detail on how resources governed through carried out by professionals. This study adopted approach Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and Halliday’s Introduction to Gra...

The main objective of this article is to identify and describe characteristic patterns language choices in texts written by Norwegian upper secondary school students German as a foreign (GFL) (age 16/17, year 12, 5th FL learning). study maps set 12 learner responses writing prompt about interpreting film title. aim the these terms how learners use ideational meaning-making resources arrive at m...

Abstract Systemic functional translation studies (SFTS) has been a research area sustained by scholars from both Functional Linguistics (SFL) and over the past decades. In China, there have an increasing number of in SFTS after 2000s, with Professor Guowen Huang being one pioneering influential contributing to this emerging area. This paper is transcript interview conducted it serves provide ge...

This study is concerned with the employment of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) theory in analyzing a speech text. The selected text was reconstructed into some clauses and sentences subsequently analyzed terms its field, tenor, mode. results analysis have shown that register category field action America’s change. tenor as realization interpersonal meaning establishment an intimate relati...

Extant research has highlighted the essentiality of grammatical metaphor (GM) as a linguistic resource in academic writing. Drawing on Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), this study investigated relationship between explicit instruction nominalisation one type GM and ESL learners’ mastery key resource. Adopting true experimental design, involved 38 Filipino professionals Singapore who needed...