Power Point two pager on SFL


Other Resources
http://wwwfp.education.tas.gov.au/english/critlit.htm
This link is a part of a website containing teaching ideas, curriculum advice, news, reviews, information on professional learning programs and multiple links. This specific link concentrates on critical literacy. It addresses questions such as what is critical literacy and why is it important and how does critical literacy look like in the classroom. It provides links that expand the approach as well as an annotated list of resources.


http://www.tki.org.nz/r/assessment/exemplars/index_e.php
This link displays New Zealand Curriculum Exemplars in English, Mathematics, The Arts (Dance Drama Music The Visual Arts), Science, Technology, Health and Physical Education and Social Studies. Exemplars are authentic pieces of student work, annotated to illustrate learning, achievement, and quality in relation to levels of national curriculum standards. The purpose is to highlight features that teachers need to watch for, collect information about, and act on to promote learning. It is based upon an alternative understanding of evidence based instruction that starts with the information gathered by teachers in the local context that seeks to move students forward.
There are over 75 exemplars displayed. A representative example with expository texts can be found at
http://www.tki.org.nz/r/assessment/exemplars/eng/trans/wpp_4f_e.php


http://www.grammatics.com/appraisal/index.html
This website is a complete reference to studying the language of attitude, arguability and interpersonal positioning. This language is studied through the appraisal framework, which concentrates on an approach to exploring, describing and explaining the way language is used to evaluate, to adopt stances, and to manage interpersonal positionings and relationships. It includes numerous references and downloads.


http://www.edict.com.hk/vlc/funcgrammar/Rank/Rank.htm
This website is an online course introducing functional grammar.


http://grammar.uoregon.edu/toc.html
This website, entitled “The tongue untied” is a reference to basic traditional grammar, punctuation and style. If you are uncertain about the basics (parts of speech and clauses) this is an accessible introduction.


http://folk.uio.no/hhasselg/systemic/index.html#top
This is another student-friendly resource on SFL. While some of the references are not available, there is a full PDF book ready for download by Donna Miller 2004 Language as Purposeful: functional varieties of texts, (Functional Grammar Studies for Non-Native Speakers of English). -the other two are not available. The bottom up / top down approach outlined in this book seems to be a good way to characterize the differences between the analysis of student's texts and textbook texts.


http://minerva.ling.mq.edu.au/resource/VirtuallLibrary/Glossary/sysglossary.htm
This is an advanced glossary of Functional System Linguistic terms for those of you who become interested in pursuing SFL further.


http://www.ellisisland.org/immexp/wseix_4_3.asp?
This is the website we used in class. It’s the timeline showing forces behind immigration and their impact on the immigrant experience.