Dear John,
I'm sorry about being so slow to repond to your interest, but my computer 
lost some intended outgoing mail.  My answers must be mainly negative.  
Meaning First illustrates my idealized way of teaching functional grammar.  
The method evolved, until I retired to focus on linguistic research.
My CCCC presentation would not be of much interest to you because it relates 
to local tests and textbooks.  A useful resource was Publishing in Rhetorica 
and Composition, a 1997 book by Gary Olson and Todd Taylor, State University of 
New York Press.  
I am not an expat Aussie, but I do have a distant cousin in Adelaide.  I have 
traveled in Australia at least four times and in Japan at least two, the last 
time in 2004.  (ISFLA had a policy of meeting each year in a different 
continent on a four or five-year cycle.)
I hope Meaning First is helpful.
Best wishes,
Carolyn Hartnett




In a message dated 8/12/2006 1:46:47 AM Central Standard Time, 
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> Subj: Functional Grammar/Systemic Functional Linguistics. 
> Date:8/12/2006 1:46:47 AM Central Standard Time
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> Dear Carolyn,
>   I was so happy to get your reply and straight away I ordered your 
> `Meaning First: A Functional Handbook of Fifty Ways to Polish Your 
> Writing`. 
>   I would love to know how you went about (and are hopefully still going 
> about)teaching functional grammar in your classes. 
>   Is there any opportunity of getting a copy of the presentation of your 
> research to the national Conference on College Composition and 
> Communication (CCCC, part of the National Council of Teachers of English, 
> NCTE)?
>   Here in Japan the teaching by expatriate teachers is centred on an 
> eclectic approach combining different elements of :traditional 
> grammar,communicative language techniques and more recently task based 
> approaches. (In the last six months I have found an excellent task-based 
> textbook that works well with my students). Unfortunately the functional 
> grammar approach as practiced in New South Wales - zero!
>   Thank you so much for offering to help - are you by any chance an 
> expat.Aussie?
>   I guess the weather in Texas is not so good at the moment but I can 
> assure you in Tokyo it is worse.
>      Regards,
>         John
>   

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