82-782 Systemic Functional Linguistics

9 units, Carnegie Mellon University

An introduction to Systemic Functional Linguistics: applications to educational linguistics Course Description: This course will give participants a brief introduction to the main principles and an opportunity to try some analytic tools of Systemic Functional Linguistics. We will discuss some key readings of MAK Halliday, Gunther Kress, Jay Lemke, Jim Martin, and Ruqya Hasan, among others, to explore this theory of language as social semiotic system. After a brief review of theories of language learning and teaching that inform SFL educational research; participants will explore applications of SFL theory to foreign language, content-based education and L2 writing. The final project will involve designing an educational linguistics study informed by SFL or doing a discourse analysis using SFL tools.

Prerequisites: none listed

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