Systemic Functional Grammar in the Teaching of Reading Philosophical Texts in EAP

Systemic functional grammar (SFG) has been more and more used in different contexts and for different purposes as a tool to help us understand how languages are used to make meaning. In this text, we try to put forward the idea of using SFG in the teaching of reading English for Academic Purposes to...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Vian Jr., Orlando
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2011
País:Brasil
Institución:Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP)
Repositorio:The ESPecialist (Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/6231
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/esp/article/view/6231
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Gramática Sistêmico-Funcional/GSF
leitura
ensino de inglês como língua estrangeira
inglês para fins acadêmicos
Systemic Functional Grammar/SFG
reading
EFL
English for Academic Purposes/EAP
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Sumario:Systemic functional grammar (SFG) has been more and more used in different contexts and for different purposes as a tool to help us understand how languages are used to make meaning. In this text, we try to put forward the idea of using SFG in the teaching of reading English for Academic Purposes to undergraduate Philosophy students at a public University in São Paulo, by suggesting ways of operationalizing SFG concepts and their usefulness in helping students to cope with lexicogrammatical aspects of philosophical texts written in English.