For those of you not on the Linguist List, here’s the TOC of the latest issue of Linguistics and Education.  Given our discussions of grammatical theories and language teaching, I thought this issue on Systemic Functional Grammar might be interesting.

 

Herb

 

Journal Title:  Linguistics and Education Volume Number:  20 Issue Number:  1 Issue Date:  2009

 

 

Subtitle:  Instructed foreign language acquisition as meaning-making: A systemic-functional approach  

 

 

Main Text: 

 

Instructed foreign language acquisition as meaning-making: A systemic-functional approach Edited by Heidi Byrnes

 

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/6578-2009-999799998-1028075

 

Table of Contents

 

Systemic-functional reflections on instructed foreign language acquisition as

meaning-making: An introduction

Heidi Byrnes  

 

Genre and language learning: A social semiotic perspective J.R. Martin

 

A functional approach to integrated assessment of teacher support and student discourse development in an elementary Chinese program 

Jingzi Huang, Bernard Mohan  

 

A systemic functional approach to teaching Spanish for heritage speakers in the United States

M. Cecilia Colombi  

 

Emergent L2 German writing ability in a curricular context: A longitudinal study of grammatical metaphor Heidi Byrnes

 

Grammar as a gateway into discourse: A systemic functional approach to Subject, Theme, and logic Kazuhiro Teruya