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




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Subj: Functional Grammar/Systemic Functional Linguistics.
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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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