Sequencing metalanguage

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Discourse systems: appraisal

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Text analysis: appraisals

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Grammar: word groups & clauses

Grammar: functions and classes

A frog / was swimming / in a pond / after a rainstorm

person process time place

clause

noun group verb group preposition phrases

the top of / those / two / tall white / gum / trees [in the park]

noun group

part pointer qualifiernumber qualities class thing

nounadjectivearticle prepositionpronoun …adverb

Grammatical metaphor & information

Metalanguage recontextualised for teaching

SFLtheory

teachers’ metalanguage

literacy teaching

Functional metalanguage Traditional metalanguagecontext genre (goal oriented social process) purpose: entertain, engage, recount, explain, classify,

describe, argue, discuss, review, evaluatefield (what’s going on) topic, subject, field, plot, setting, characters, themetenor (who’s involved) audience, voice, style, tension, tone: personal/objectivemode (role of language) speaking & listening, reading & writing, viewing

text staging story, novel, poem, play, article, report, chapter, sectionnarrative:Orientation^Complication^Resolution setting, climaxexplanation: Phenomenon^Explanationreport: Classification^Descriptionprocedure: Materials^Steps Aim^Method^Results^Discussionexposition: Thesis^Arguments^Restatement essay:discussion: Issue^Sides^Resolution Introduction^Body^Conclusionreview: Context^Description^Evaluation

phase stories: setting, event, problem, reaction, solution,description, comment, reflection

paragraphepisode

explanation: steps, factors, consequencesreport: types (classifying),parts (compositional)

appearance, behaviour, habitatlocation, population, economy…

argument: evidence, example, grounds, conclusionsentence clause, independent/dependent punctuation, capital, full stop

doing & happening, saying & sensing, being & having comma, colon, semicolon, question mark, exclamationpeople, thing, process, place, time, quality mark, speech marks, quotation marks, question/statement

word verb group, noun group, preposition phrase phrasegroup thing, class, quality, number, pointer metaphor, simile, idiom

qualifier (add on), part of, measure of, group ofword lexical/ grammatical words content/ structure words

noun, verb, adverb, pronounconjunction, prepositionname, adjective, article

Integrating metalanguage

Learning metadiscourse

regulative field

teaching curriculuminstructional

field

curriculum field

tacit knowledge of discourse patterns

Learning metadiscourse

regulative field

teaching curriculuminstructional

field

curriculum field

teaching metadiscourse

learning cycles

metadiscourseabout language &

curriculum

Regulative tenor: success/failure,

inclusion/exclusion

Regulative field: learning activities

doing/ studying

projectingRegulative mode: spoken, written visual, manual

Instructional field‘specialized skills’

social theory

learning theory

knowledge theory

A discipline for teaching: metatheory in action

linguistic theory

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