Correspondence: mjmsxjj@gmail. com School of Foreign Languages, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China Systemic Phonology: Recent Studies in English is an extremely timely addition to the literature of systemic functional linguistics (SFL). Despite the importance of phonology to any general description of language, the editors note that this is the first collection focusing on phonolog...

Assessing and reforming classroom literacy has become a preoccupation of nations worldwide, not the least in Pacific where countries are often working toward English within multilingual contexts. In Solomon Islands, 2013, poor results regional local testing precipitated review how language was taught primary schools across this nation. subsequent reform materials associated training for teacher...

language, science and politics go together and learning these genres is to learn a language created for codifying, extending and transmitting scientific and political knowledge. grammatical metaphor is divided into two broad areas: ideational and interpersonal.this paper focuses on the first type i.e. ideational grammatical metaphor (igm), which includes process types and nominalization.  the m...

this paper presents the first part of a larger study on the issue of graduate employability in malaysia as construed in public discourse in english, a language of power in malaysia. the term employability itself has many definitions depending on the requirements of government and industry, and in the case of malaysia, the english-language ability of graduates is inseparable from graduate employ...

Editorial is an important part of newspapers since the opinions expressed can influence reader's point view. The two major Indonesian news media that publish editorials in their are Kompas and Tempo. This study explores potential differences editorial characters between Tempo regarding 2024 election issue. To achieve this goal, organizational structure texts examined attitudinal tendencies inve...

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...

the field of elt is constantly witnessing the introduction of new instructional approaches: one such perhaps recent initiative is critical discourse analysis (cda). accordingly, the present study was an attempt to investigate the impact of cda instruction on iranian efl learners’ descriptive and argumentative writing ability. to fulfill the aforementioned purpose, a sample toefl was primarily p...