scholarly journals ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ REPORT WRITING FROM SFL-GP PERSPECTIVE AND ITS RELATION TO STUDENTS’ PROFICIENCY

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-76
Author(s):  
Monalisa Pasaribu ◽  
Tiurma Lumban Lumban ◽  
Hernawati Samosir
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Language Proficiency ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Science Students ◽  
Report Writing ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Genre Writing ◽  
The Relationship

Academic writing is one of important skill to have students in tertiary education, including students of Information Technology Diploma. Using Systemic Functional Linguistics Genre Pedagogy (SFL GP), the students report writings are investigated, his research aims at investigating how students comprehend SFL GP in their report writing and find out the relationship between students’ knowledge of SFL GP with their language proficiency. The texts are analyzed using the genre division by Rose and Martin. The results of the analysis will be used to investigate if the knowledge of genre writing for technology-based students is related to their language proficiency. This research contributes to better use of genre pedagogy for science students, more specifically, students of Information Technology.

scholarly journals Exploring process ‘verbs’ in EFL postgraduates’ citations: A Systemic Functional Linguistics approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nayef Jomaa Jomaa ◽  
Siti Jamilah Bidin
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Mental Processes ◽  
Functional Theory ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Phd Theses

Due to their significance in establishing a research background, citations have been under focus by several researchers. However, limited studies have applied the Functional Theory in analysing reporting verbs in citations. Hence, this study identifies citations in the literature review chapters of 20 PhD theses in Information Technology and Applied Linguistics by EFL postgraduates within the ESL context. These PhD theses were selected purposefully. This study explores qualitatively the processes based on the ideational metafunction of the Systemic Functional Linguistics. The findings show that the material processes were used dominantly, followed by relational, verbal, and mental processes, whereas the behavioural  processes were less used. The use of processes ‘verbs’ is influenced by field and tenor as register variables. Thus, the findings imply that EFL postgraduates are unaware of using processes; therefore, they should receive discipline-specific instructions. Pedagogical textbooks for academic writing could be also developed based on the outputs of the present study.

L2 Theme development in Discursive and Experimental undergraduate student writing

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao Chen ◽  
Sheena Gardner
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Student ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Writing Development ◽  
Experimental Writing ◽  
Student Writing ◽  
Report Writing ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Successful Student ◽  
Lexical Density

Abstract To complement earlier studies of writing development in the BAWE corpus of successful student writing (Nesi & Gardner 2012; Staples et al. 2016), we examine the Systemic Functional Linguistics notion of Theme as used by L2 writers across first- and third-year and in two distinctive discourse types: persuasive/argumentative Discursive writing of assignments in the soft disciplines and Experimental report writing of assignments in the hard sciences. Theme analysis reveals more substantial differences across the two discourse types than between first- and third-year L2 undergraduate writing. Textual Themes are consistently more frequent than interpersonal Themes, and some variance is found within subcategories of each. Significant differences in lexical density occur across third-year discourse types and between first- and third-year Experimental writing where a predominance of N+N topical Themes is also found. These findings are important as previous research has tended to focus on L1 Discursive writing.

BAAL/CUP Seminars 2010

2011 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-133
Author(s):  
James Donohue
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Open University ◽  
Academic Literacies ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Milton Keynes

The Open University, Milton Keynes, 21 April 2010This seminar, organised by Caroline Coffin and Jim Donohue (both from the Open University, UK), took the form of a day of dialogue between invited experts and other interested parties, including academic writing practitioners, researchers and postgraduate students. The invited speakers were asked to form panels representing either Academic Literacies or Systemic Functional Linguistics.

Bridging boundaries across genre traditions

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 259-293
Author(s):  
Isaac Nuokyaa-Ire Mwinlaaru
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Frequency Distribution ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Lexical Bundles ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Research Article

Abstract This study explores the benefits of a synergy between ESP research on genre and theoretical dimensions of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). It models genre on SFL dimensions and employs this model to analyse 200 biodata written by Applied Linguistics scholars, 100 each from research articles and seminar posters. Data were analysed from contextual, logico-semantic and lexicogrammatical perspectives. The findings reveal five generic stages in biodata. The frequency distribution of these stages and the phases that realise them shows variation between research article bios and seminar bios. The most frequent logico-semantic (or rhetorical) relations identified among stages and phases are of the expansion type, namely addition and elaboration, Further, collocational frameworks are used in organising some generic phases into waves of meaning and in construing different identities. Finally, evaluative resources, in the form of lexical bundles, modification and circumstantial elements in the clause, are employed by writers to boost their professional achievements and promote themselves. These findings contribute to theoretical discussions on genre and the scholarship on the interface between identity construction and academic writing, and also motivate further research.

scholarly journals Analysis of the UN Secretary-general’s Remarks on Climate Change: From the View of Ecolinguistics

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 851
Author(s):  
Hecong Wang ◽  
Rui Zhai ◽  
Xinyu Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Ecological Values ◽  
The Relationship

Ecological discourse analysis could reflect the relationship between language and environmental issues and awake people’s consciousness to protect our earth. According to Systemic-Functional linguistics, language is not only a means of action but also a means of reflection. This study aims to use Systemic-Functional linguistics to analyze the United Nation’s general-secretary’s remarks on climate change and reveal the ecological ideologies from the perspective of Ecolinguistics, appealing for people’s ecological values, and lead them to act ecologically and think ecologically (Huang Guowen, 2016) in their daily life.

scholarly journals Correlation between Military Character Strengths and Leaders of Character in Software Development Process among Computer Science Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 763-767
Author(s):  
Suzaimah Ramli ◽  
◽  
Muslihah Wook ◽  
Aminulhaq Ghazali ◽  
Roziyah Ahmad ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Military Personnel ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Character Strengths ◽  
Science Students ◽  
Software Development Process ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
National Defence

The National Defence University of Malaysia (NDUM) is the sole provider of tertiary education for future military personnel. As a boutique university, NDUM emphasises on developing military character strengths among its students in all aspects of co-curricular and academic curriculum. This paper will present the relationship between Military Character Strengths (MCS) and the software development process (SDP), as part of the Final Year Project (FYP) for Computer Science students at the Faculty of Defence Science and Technology. This study has analysed the formation of an outstanding and successful NDUM student, which can be influenced by the MCS. NDUM has outlined the characteristics of its ideal graduates, known as the 'Leaders of Character' (LoC). The results showed that MCS are important attributes of LoC implementation. The results further showed that there was a correlation between MCS and LoC in software development process for Computer Science students in NDUM.

scholarly journals Systemic Functional Linguistics as appliable linguistics: social accountability and critical approaches

2012 ◽  
Vol 28 (spe) ◽  
pp. 435-471 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
General Category ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Critical Approaches ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Work First

This article is concerned with the relationship between Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), and with SFL as a resource for socially accountable academic work. First it locates SFL within the general category of appliable linguistics (as opposed to either theoretical or applied linguistics), an approach to the study of language that is also designed to be socially accountable. Then, against the background of SFL, it traces the development first of Critical Linguistics and then of CDA, also identifying other influences incorporated within these traditions. Next, it compares CDA with other orientations within discourse analysis from the perspective of SFL, and proposes the notion of appliable discourse analysis (ADA). This leads to an overview of the dimensions of ADA, and finally to the question of the place of ADA within a general appliable linguistics.

Systemic functional linguistics, corpus linguistics, and the ideology of science

2013 ◽  
Vol 33 (4-5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Hunston
Keyword(s):  
Corpus Linguistics ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Popular Science ◽  
Science Text ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Science Book ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Popular Science Book

AbstractThis paper considers the relationship between research using systemic functional linguistics and research of the kind referred to as corpus linguistics, specifically in a study of ideology in a popular science text. The paper argues that ideas in SFL and corpus linguistics may be regarded as parallel (register), divergent (grammar and phraseology), and complementary (lexis and taxonomy). Following a review of research in these areas, the paper presents a case study of evaluation of status in a popular science book (

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