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March 2007 |
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In This Issue · NASFLA and Friends Dinner at the AAAL Meeting IN COSTA MESA · SFL presence at AAAL 2006 in Montreal · Upcoming presentations NASFLA Officers President:
Bernie Mohan@ubc.ca> Vice
President: Nan Fries Secretary:
Xiaoping Liang Contact Us Newsletter
Editor : Viviana
Cortes viviana@iastate.edu Webmaster:
Michael
Cummings NASFLA website |
Invitation
to NAFSLA Dinner/Business meeting at AAAL 2007
The 13th annual dinner for
Systemicists and other interested people will be held beginning at 8:00 PM
(after the President's Reception) Monday evening, April 23 at the Clubhouse.
3333 East Bristol, South Coast Plaza, Costa Mesa. We are told the
restaurant is about a 20 minute walk from the hotel. If this is too far for
you to walk, we suggest combining to get a cab. Perhaps gathering at the
entrance to the reception at about 7:30 would help you get cabs in groups.
Please RSVP to Nan and Peter Fries peterhfries@cs.com by March 30. Systemic Functional Linguistics June 17 - 20, 2006
Georgetown University, entitled Foreign/second
language acquisition as meaning-making: A systemic-functional approach, with
James. R. Martin, University of Sydney, Heidi Byrnes, Georgetown University,
Prof. Kazuhiro Teruya, University New South Wales and M. Cecilia Colombi, The University of
California, Davis, as featured speakers. This colloquium considered the
potential of systemic-functional linguistics (SFL), as a meaning-focused
theory of language, for offering insights into foreign/ second language
learning and teaching. It explored genre as a construct for organizing L2
instruction, a meaning-based approach to grammar, and foci and forms of
pedagogy for diverse learner groups and levels. Two other colloquia related to SFL were presented at the conference.
The first one, submitted by Sue Hood, University of Technology, Sydney,
entitled Analysing evaluation in
academic discourse: Juxtaposing contexts, questions and methods in search of
new directions for research, with presenters
Betty Samraj, San Diego State University, Susan Hood, University of
Technology, Sydney, Maggie Charles, Oxford University Language Center, UK,
and Mary J. Schleppegrell, University of Michigan and Heidi Byrnes as a discussant.
The other colloquium was submitted by Bernie Moham, University of British
Columbia, Canada, and focused on The Textual Metafunction and Genre Structure
within Systemic Functional Grammar: Theoretical Developments and Practical
Implications. The presenters in this case were Peter H. Fries, Central Michigan
University, Geoff Williams, University of British Columbia, and Jessica De
Villiers, University of British Columbia. This colloquium discussed the
importance of text goals involving the Textual Metafunction (Theme/Rheme,
Given/New, Cohesion) which analyses of genre structure have generally not
addressed. Upcoming
presentations
This is a list of some of the presentations by Systemicists at AAAL ’07 (in chronological order). Please check the AAAL schedule before attending a session, in case there are last minute room changes. The presenters and the NASFLA community would love to see you all there. Bernard Mohan, University of British Columbia, and Jingzi Huang,
Monmouth University, A Functional Approach to Assessing Student Discourse
and the Integration of Language, Content and Culture in an Elementary Chinese
Program, Saturday, April 21, 3:10 pm – 3:40 pm, Hilton Costa
Mesa: Pacific Ballroom IV Jay Lemke, University of Michigan, Transmedia Meaning-Making: Discourse beyond Text,
Saturday, April 21, 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm, Hilton Costa Mesa: Pacific Ballroom IV Viviana Cortes, Iowa State University, A comparative study of lexical bundles in history
writing in English and Spanish, Sunday, April 22, 8:15 am -
8:45 am, Hilton Costa Mesa: Newport I Betty Samraj, San Diego State University, Intertextuality in discussion sections of master's theses and research articles. Tuesday, April 24, 9:25 am - 9:55 am, Hilton Costa Mesa: Newport I |
