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/