Warming up
Continue the following extract:
innalillahi wainna ilahirojiun
Warming up
Warming Up
How to Make Fried Noodle
Questions
How do you know that each text has different
development?
REGISTER
TEXT
SITUATION
CULTURE
Who is involved? (Tenor)
GENRE
(PURPOSE)
The subject matter
(Field)
The channel
(Mode)
The Context of Culture
The attitudes, values and shared experiences of
any group of people living in the one culture.
Culturally evolved expectations of ways of
behaving
Culturally evolved ways of getting things done or
of achieving common goals (genre)
• buying and selling goods
• directing someone to the bank • recounting recent events
Register
Field:
the social activity taking place.(football, cooking, stamp collecting, studying history, economics)
Tenor:
the relationship between participants. Power (equal or unequal status)
Contact (how often you have contact with the person to
whom you are speaking or writing)
Affect (attitudes and feelings towards topics and
Register … continued
Mode:
the channel of linguistic communication. Distance in space and distance in time between
speaker/listener and reader/writer
Distance between text and the events being referred to, such as listening to cooking demonstration on TV;
SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS THEORY IN ELT
SFL?
A functional-semantic approach to language
which explores both:
(a) how people use language in different
contexts; and
FORMAL
VS
FUNTIONAL GRAMMAR
Primary concern
Unit of Analysis
Language level of concern
FORMAL
How is (should) this sentence be structured?
Sentence
Syntax
FUNCTIONAL
How are the
meanings of this text realized?
Whole texts
(cont.)
Why SFL in ELT?:
Relevance of SFL and Communicative Lang.
Teaching?
Focuses on meanings and how language operates to
make meaning at text levels.
Stresses how meanings are made/negotiated in
actual communication.
Explores language based on its use in context of
Performative
Functional
Informational
Epistemic
PERFORMATIVE
the code as code – an important part of becoming literate
simply a matter of acquiring:
those skills that allow a written message to be decoded into speech in order to ascertain its meaning
those skills that allow a spoken message to be encoded in writing, according to the conventions of letter formation, spelling and punctuation.
‘breaking the code’ of knowing the relationship between
FUNCTIONAL
emphasises the uses that are made of literacy in interpersonal
communication
is able to as a member of that particular society to cope with
the demands of everyday life that involve written language.
reading a popular newspaper, writing a job application,
following procedural instructions
INFORMATIONAL
focuses on the role that literacy plays in the
communication of knowledge, particularly discipline-based knowledge
the curricular emphasis on reading and writing – but
particularly reading
the student’s use for accessing the accumulated
knowledge in order to construct a meaning which reciprocate the intention of the writer
‘being a text participant’ (able to ‘comprehend’ the
EPISTEMIC
to have available ways of acting upon and
transforming knowledge and experience that are in general unavailable to those who have never learned to read and write
the aesthetic aspect of language as art (literature,
