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What is Systemic Functional Grammar? (Part 1)
Following my talk at the 2010 BESIG IATEFL conference in Bielefeld and the 2011 IATEFL conference in Brighton about the topic, several people have expressed an interest in finding out more about...
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Systemic Functional Grammar (Part 2 – The Interpersonal Metafunction)
If you were patient enough to read through my last post on SFG, here’s Part 2. Halliday divides the way we use language into different metafunctions, and here is the first of the 3 parts. We use...
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Systemic Functional Grammar (Part 3 – The Experiential Metafunction)
If the Interpersonal Metafunction showed the point of view of the speaker at the moment of speaking through the Mood element, one could say that the Residue carried the content of that message. And the...
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Systemic Functional Grammar – Part 4 (The Textual Metafunction & Conclusion)
In this final part of my exploration of SFG, I look at the Textual Metafunction, a part of SFG that is used in EFL teaching more than the other metafunctions, and often related to cohesion and...
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