Dear John, Glad to be of help. My book, Meaning First, shows how I taught required classes titled "Rhetoric and Composition." Grammar (and such things as organization and tone, etc.) are all related to effective composition. I did not aim to teach grammar as a separate subject, only as an aid to good writing. I don't believe that my CCCC presentation would be of great use to you over there because it relates contents of our popular textbooks to the requirements of our specified tests -- which were changed in Texas since then. Better is a book I cited a great deal: Publishing in Rhetoric and Compositioon, edited by Gary Olson and Todd Taylor, published by State University of New York Press in 1997. I do recommend that highly. I read your request and a response on the Sysfling list. All the best, Carolyn In a message dated 8/12/2006 1:46:47 AM Central Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes: > Subj: Functional Grammar/Systemic Functional Linguistics. > Date:8/12/2006 1:46:47 AM Central Standard Time > From:[log in to unmask] > Reply-to:[log in to unmask] > To:[log in to unmask] > Received from Internet: > > > > 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 > > > To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface > at: > http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html > and select "Join or leave the list" > > Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/ To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html and select "Join or leave the list" Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/