Open AccessUsing a Systemic Functional Linguistics Genre Approach to Help EFL Pre-Service Teachers Write Research Proposals
Author(s) -
Iván Darío Flórez García,
Sandra Milena Echeverri,
Ana Elsy Díaz Monsalve
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
lenguaje
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2539-3804
pISSN - 0120-3479
DOI - 10.25100/lenguaje.v49i2.8980
Subject(s) - systemic functional linguistics , argument (complex analysis) , statement (logic) , problem statement , applied linguistics , curriculum , computer science , section (typography) , linguistics , service (business) , mathematics education , psychology , pedagogy , engineering , medicine , philosophy , economy , management science , economics , operating system
This article presents the results of a qualitative research study that aimed to explore the benefits of implementing a Systemic-Functional Linguistics (SFL) genre-based approach to help a group of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) pre-service teachers write the statement of the problem section of their research proposals. The implementation comprised a series of writing workshops and individual tutoring sessions with students designed following the principles of the SFL genre-based curriculum cycle. To gain better insights into the benefits of this approach, the workshop sessions, the individual tutoring sessions, and the individual student interviews were audio-recorded. In addition, samples of students’ drafts and final texts were collected and analyzed. The findings show that the approach has the potential to enhance students’ awareness of how to structure arguments in the statement of the problem section of their research proposal. Students also improved their ability to elaborate on each argument that they put forward throughout the section.