scholarly journals Oral Academic Discourse Socialization of an ESL Chinese Student: Cohesive Device Use

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Sue Wang ◽  
Tammy Slater
Keyword(s):  
Oral Language ◽  
Language Socialization ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Academic Discourse ◽  
Chinese Student ◽  
Language Instruction ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Analysis Tool ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Discourse Socialization

<p>Framed in language socialization theory, this study examines the longitudinal cohesive device development of an ESL Chinese graduate student over time during his discourse socialization by focusing on his oral presentations through a systemic functional linguistics approach. The study found that the participant improved in his use of textual resources as he continued his discourse socialization in the academic community that he had joined. Yet the problems and challenges the participant faced during his development of cohesive devices also illustrated the complexity and non-linear characteristics of academic discourse socialization. The study contributes to language socialization research by employing a systemic functional linguistics approach as an analysis tool for longitudinal linguistic discourse development. The findings inform second language curriculum and instruction, particularly oral language instruction.</p>

scholarly journals Resenha: Accessing Academic Discourse

Signo ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 46 (86) ◽  
pp. 197-198
Author(s):  
Orlando Vian Jr
Keyword(s):  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Academic Discourse ◽  
Code Theory ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Legitimation Code Theory

Este texto tem por objetivo resenhar a coletânea Accessing Academic Discourse - Systemic Functional Linguistics and Legitimation Code Theory, organizada por James R. Martin, Karl Maton e Yaegan Doran, da editora Routledge, 315 páginas.

scholarly journals Writing Instructions at a University and Identity Issues: A Systemic Functional Linguistics Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (06) ◽  
pp. 275
Author(s):  
Nagina Kanwal ◽  
Samina Amin Qadir ◽  
Kamran Shaukat
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Institutional Goals ◽  
Academic Texts ◽  
Writing Instructions ◽  
The University

In this paper, we explore the discoursal identity in the academic writing of a postgraduate student from the University of Pakistan where English is the medium of instruction as well as taught as a foreign language. The study aims to find out the extent and the specific ways dominant conventions and practices enable and constrain meaning-making. It also helps to identify the role of social and institutional goals in shaping the discoursal identity of students. To achieve our objectives, we have conducted a linguistic analysis of the student’s academic texts by using Systemic Functional Linguistics. The findings from the linguistic analysis of academic texts are quite significant because the lexico-grammatical and discoursal choices in the academic texts reflect their writer’s desired disposition and their orientation within academia and their socio-cultural setting. Thus they reveal the writer’s discoursal identity and his positioning and affiliation with the academic community. The findings of the study provide significant implications for the reconceptualization of writing instructions at universities, also they point to the need to employ emerging technologies in the writing instructions program while not ignoring the students’ identity issues.

Language Socialization into Academic Discourse Communities

2010 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 169-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia A. Duff
Keyword(s):  
Language Socialization ◽  
Academic Discourse ◽  
Discourse Communities ◽  
Academic Communities ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Social Positioning ◽  
The Social ◽  
Personal Transformations ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Discourse Socialization

Although much has been written about academic discourse from diverse theoretical perspectives over the past two decades, and especially about English academic discourse, research on socialization into academic discourse or literacies in one's first or subsequently learned languages or into new discourse communities has received far less attention. Academic discourse socialization is a dynamic, socially situated process that in contemporary contexts is often multimodal, multilingual, and highly intertextual as well. The process is characterized by variable amounts of modeling, feedback, and uptake; different levels of investment and agency on the part of learners; by the negotiation of power and identities; and, often, important personal transformations for at least some participants. However, the consequences and outcomes of academic discourse socialization are also quite unpredictable, both in the shorter term and longer term. In this review I provide a brief historical overview of research on language socialization into academic communities and describe, in turn, developments in research on socialization into oral, written, and online discourse and the social practices associated with each mode. I highlight issues of conformity or reproduction to local norms and practices versus resistance and contestation of these. Next, studies of socialization into academic publication and into particular textual identities are reviewed. I conclude with a short discussion of race, culture, gender, and academic discourse socialization, pointing out how social positioning by oneself and others can affect participants’ engagement and performance in their various learning communities.

scholarly journals MULTIMODALITY: MENAFSIR VERBAL, MEMBACA GAMBAR,DAN MEMAHAMI TEKS

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Budi Hermawan
Keyword(s):  
Image Analysis ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Analysis Tool ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Verbal Mode ◽  
Analysis Of The Images

Abstrak Tulisan ini ditujukan khususnya untuk memenuhi dua tujuan utama. Pertama, tulisan ini memperkenalkan dan menjelaskan multimodality sebagai sebuah ‘prosedur analisa’ yang harus digunakan untuk menganalisa teks yang menggunakan lebih dari satu semiotic mode, khususnya yang menggunakan mode verbal dan mode gambar atau imej secara bersamaan dalam sebuah kesempatan penyampaian makna. Kedua, tulisan ini menjelaskan langkah-langkah teknis prosedur analisa multimodality yang dapat digunakan untuk menganalisa teks seperti tersebut dan memberikan contoh penggunaan langkah analisa. Dengan demikian, tulisan ini juga mengeksplorasi manfaat yang dapat diperoleh dari penggunaan ‘prosedur analisa’ ini untuk menganalisa teks. Tulisan ini mendukung argumen yang ditawakan diantaranya oleh Kress dan van Leeuwen (2006), dan Machin dan Myer (2012), yang menyakini bahwa pesan yang disampaikan dengan semiotic mode berbeda secara bersamaan (verbal dan imej) dalam sebuah teks tidak dapat dianalisa hanya dengan alat analisa lingusitik saja, tetapi mengharuskan dua alat analisa yang berbeda yaitu linguistics, dan image analysis tool seperti reading image yang saling mendukung menuju pemahaman makna yang lebih menyeluruh. Bentuk hubungan yang tercipta dari verbal dan imej sebagai dua semiotic mode berbeda dalam sebuah teks juga dipaparkan dalam tulisan ini. Kata-kata kunci: multimodality, semiotic mode, teks, mode verbal, mode imej  AbstractThis article was especially to serve two main purposes; firstly, it introduces and elaborates multimodality as a ‘ procedure of analysis’ to use to analyze texts which use more than one semiotic mode, particularly those that use verbal and images at the same time. Secondly, this article both explicates technical steps of the procedure that can be used to analyze given texts, and provides an example of the application of the steps. Hence, though implicitly, the article explores the strengths to gain from the application of the procedure. The article supports the argument offered, among others, by Kress and van Leeuwen (2006), and Machin and Myer (2012), who argue that messages sent in a text using two different semiotic modes at the same time, verbal and visual, should be analyzed by a tool of analysis that combines the analysis of verbal and visual such as Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) for the analysis of verbal, and Reading Images for the analysis of the images. These, work together to unearth the messages to allow us better interpretation and understanding of the messages. The relations between verbal-visual are also discussed in this article  Keywords: Multimodality, semiotic mode, text, verbal, images

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