This sounds great! Thanks for sharing, Peter! If any of the presenters want
to make handouts available to ATEG pre- or post-conference (either via
listserv or website), they are free to do so (they should contact me via
email). I hope those attending the conference will take advantage of the
opportunity to learn more about this approach to language in the classroom.
John
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Peter H. Fries <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> For those of you who are planning to attend the annual NCTE convention in
> Chicago November 17 - 22, the North American Systemic Functional Linguistics
> Association co-sponsored session will feature Mary Schleppegrell, Jason
> Moore and Ebony Thomas presenting a session titled *Using systemic
> functional linguistics to focus on language and meaning in teachers'
> professional development*.* *
>
> *The session is *
>
> *Session G.15: 9:30 – 10:45 AM, Saturday, 11/19/2011, in the Chicago
> Hilton Conference Room 4A, fourth floor.*
>
> An extended abstract for the session is below.
>
>
> I also noticed some other names on the NCTE program that may be familiar to
> members of this list. Perhaps those of you who are presenting there might
> like to provide additional information on your presentations there.
>
>
> Peter Fries
>
>
>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
>
>
> Each of the three presenters will describe a professional development (PD)
> context in which teachers are developing an understanding of SFL approaches
> to literacy. The first reports on PD with elementary grade teachers that
> makes links between reading and writing. The second describes a project
> that uses SFL constructs to support bilingual students’ development of
> disciplinary literacy in secondary English Language Arts. The third* *describes
> a university course for preservice and inservice teachers that focuses on
> language. The session will begin with a brief introduction from Peter Fries.
> Then each presenter will speak for 15 minutes, followed by five minutes of
> discussion. After the three presentations, we will have ten minutes for
> general discussion.
>
>
>
> FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR IN THE ELEMENTARY CLASSROOM
>
> Mary Schleppegrell will report on a project currently underway to introduce
> elementary grade teachers to a functional linguistics metalanguage that
> supports talk about text. The goal is to help teachers support English
> Language Learners’ reading and writing development, enabling children to
> read for deeper meaning as well as to construct the text types that are
> valued in early literacy contexts. Artifacts from the project will
> illustrate how attention to an author's language choices, focused on
> particular areas of meaning informed by SFL, enables discussion about
> character development, plot elements, and the themes of a story. In
> addition, student texts written with careful scaffolding of overall
> structure and relevant language features will be used to illustrate how
> children's language development is supported by this approach.
>
>
>
> FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR IN THE SECONDARY CLASSROOM
>
> Jason Moore will report on a project that is developing SFL approaches in
> the secondary English Language Arts classroom. Students at the secondary
> level, in particular, need support making form-meaning connections, where
> they face more challenging, discipline-specific literacy tasks. Records of
> practice will be presented to illustrate how a class of 9th grade students
> used SFL-based metalanguage to make sense of a text, and some major
> affordances and challenges of using SFL to plan and implement instruction
> will be reported and discussed. In addition, the presenter will share
> insights gained from the feedback of a classroom teacher unfamiliar with SFL
> who observed and reflected on this instruction. Finally, the presenter will
> draw some implications from this work for preparing other English teachers
> to use SFL as a pedagogical resource.
>
>
>
> FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR IN THE TEACHER EDUCATION CLASSROOM
>
> Ebony Elizabeth Thomas will report on ongoing curriculum re-development in
> a required course for elementary language arts and secondary English
> education students at an urban university. The purpose of the course is to
> provide preservice and inservice teachers with knowledge about grammar and
> usage that is relevant to their English language arts classrooms. Students
> in the course selected nonfiction texts appropriate for their level of
> specialization and learned to conduct functional grammar analyses on those
> texts. Using SFL constructs such as *text types* (genres), *participants
> and processes*, and *interpersonal resources*, students then created
> language-focused units of instruction. This work will be contextualized
> through artifacts created by the instructor, and the ways students took up
> this kind of learning about language will be illustrated.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Peter H. Fries
>
> Box 310
> Mount Pleasant MI 48804
>
> Phone: 989-644-3384
> Cell: 989-400-3764
>
> Email: [log in to unmask]
>
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> [among 'emeritus faculty']
>
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