Hi Folks –
A couple of colleagues and I are doing a presentation at
NCTE, and since other ATEG members might be interested, I’ve clipped the
program description below. It’s grammar from a Systemic perspective,
but we’re trying to keep it as broadly applicable as possible.
I find the NCTE program a bit overwhelming (my town’s
phone book is smaller), and I suspect not everything about grammar shows up in
presentations marked as “grammar” presentations, so I’d
appreciate any info about other grammar-related sections at the conference.
-- Bill Spruiell
Dept. of English
Central Michigan University
F.30 LINKING GRAMMATICAL CHOICES TO
MEANINGS IN TEXTS (M–S–C)
Javits Convention Center/1E18, Level
1
Sponsored by the North American
Systemic Functional
Linguistics Association, open to
all
These presenters will describe three ways
in which to
integrate the teaching of grammar with
reading and writing.
Working with the language of real texts,
they will demonstrate
activities that explore ways in which
specific
grammatical choices contribute to the
meanings of those
texts. Handouts will be provided that will
encourage
further exploration at home.
Chair: Peter H. Fries,
Central Michigan University, Mount
Pleasant
Presenters: Peter H. Fries,
Central Michigan University,
Mount Pleasant, “Grammatical Choices
and Text Meaning:
The Case of the Passive Voice”
Beth Samuelson, Central Michigan
University, Mount
Pleasant, “Exploring Grammar through
Language Corpora:
Meaningful Applications for Language
Education”
William
Spruiell, Central Michigan
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