Open AccessIncorporating systemic functional linguistics in the unlock course book: English intermediate level at Birzeit University
Author(s) -
Mohamed Ishnaiwer
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
global journal of foreign language teaching
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2301-2595
DOI - 10.18844/gjflt.v10i1.4478
Subject(s) - systemic functional linguistics , interpersonal communication , sentence , applied linguistics , computer science , control (management) , linguistics , register (sociolinguistics) , psychology , mathematics education , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , communication , philosophy
This research attempts to develop a supplementary writing teaching method that is compatible with the Unlock intermediate level students at Birzeit University. To achieve this goal, the study identifies four general writing needs and purposes for such students: understanding purpose and genre; using clause and sentence structure for these purposes and text types; developing a sense of audience and writing coherently. This review includes an overview of genre and the three register dimensions: ideational, interpersonal and textual. Writing instruction is provided through two teaching methodologies: Joint Construction and the Logical Tree which will be discussed thoroughly under the Methodology section. The sample of this study is 54 intermediate level students of Unlock English program; 27 of which were the control group and the other 27 were the experimental group. The overall results showed more use of the measured variables in the experimental group than in the control one.
Keywords: Systemic functional linguistics, unlock course book, metafunctions, ideational, interpersonal, textual.