34.3140, Confs: NATESOL Webinar: Text Deconstruction for Language Teaching: a Systemic Functional Linguistics Analytical Grid

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Subject: 34.3140, Confs: NATESOL Webinar: Text Deconstruction for Language Teaching: a Systemic Functional Linguistics Analytical Grid

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Date: 23-Oct-2023
From: Anthony Picot [a.picot at mmu.ac.uk]
Subject: NATESOL Webinar: Text Deconstruction for Language Teaching: a Systemic Functional Linguistics Analytical Grid 


NATESOL Webinar: Text Deconstruction for Language Teaching: a Systemic
Functional Linguistics Analytical Grid

Date: 08-Nov-2023 - 08-Nov-2023
Location: Online, United Kingdom
Contact: Anthony Picot
Contact Email: a.picot at mmu.ac.uk
Meeting URL: https://www.natesol.org/event-details/text-deconstruction
-for-language-teaching-a-systemic-functional-linguistics-analytical-gr
id

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Meeting Description:

In this talk, I’ll show a simple and systematic way to deconstruct
texts to extract teachable content for students. This is based on
systemic functional linguistics/genre approach to literacy and has a
long history and demonstrated impact in language teaching, in several
contexts such as EAP, EAL and EFL. The approach is a coherent analysis
of meaning at whole text, paragraph, and sentence level. In this
session we’ll focus on a text taken from a Science, technology,
engineering, mathematics (STEM) discipline.

Knowing this basic text deconstruction approach is empowering because
it makes visible the typical features of specific genres, it can be
applied to any text by teachers and students and can become a habitual
lens through which to see texts. The talk will enable us to discuss
language as a resource for meaning-making, and to consider the
deliberate choices writers make to achieve their communication goals.
This approach moves away from an ‘ideal competence’ view of language
and of the student as deficient and makes meaning the focus of study,
opening the door to transforming our students and ourselves into
(critical) discourse analysts.

 Text Deconstruction for Language Teaching: a Systemic Functional
Linguistics Analytical Grid

Dr Laetitia Monbec University of Leeds

Date: Wednesday 8th November 2023
Time: 16.00 - 17.15 pm GMT (event starts 16.00; talk starts 16.10)
Venue: This is a free online event.
Register here: https://www.natesol.org/event-details/text-deconstructi
on-for-language-teaching-a-systemic-functional-linguistics-analytical-
grid


Summary
In this talk, I’ll show a simple and systematic way to deconstruct
texts to extract teachable content for students. This is based on
systemic functional linguistics/genre approach to literacy and has a
long history and demonstrated impact in language teaching, in several
contexts such as EAP, EAL and EFL. The approach is a coherent analysis
of meaning at whole text, paragraph, and sentence level. In this
session we’ll focus on a text taken from a Science, technology,
engineering, mathematics (STEM) discipline.

Knowing this basic text deconstruction approach is empowering because
it makes visible the typical features of specific genres, it can be
applied to any text by teachers and students and can become a habitual
lens through which to see texts. The talk will enable us to discuss
language as a resource for meaning-making, and to consider the
deliberate choices writers make to achieve their communication goals.
This approach moves away from an ‘ideal competence’ view of language
and of the student as deficient and makes meaning the focus of study,
opening the door to transforming our students and ourselves into
(critical) discourse analysts.


Biography
I have recently taken a position at the University of Leeds in the UK
after teaching EAP and CLIL (content and language integrated learning)
modules in colour semiotics in the National University of Singapore
and previously at City University in Hong Kong. My doctoral research
focused on Systemic Functional Linguistics/genre approach to EAP
curriculum and on transfer from EAP. I am interested in social
semiotics, including language and multimodal communication, critical
thinking, communicating in STEM, agency and identity of EAP
practitioners and discourse analysis for language teachers.

Website: www.natesol.org        Twitter: @NATESOL_Tweets



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