2. Experience sharing of the Language and Literacy course MADAM LAU KAM LUNG SECONDARY SCHOOL OF MIU FAT BUDDHIST MONASTERY CHOW LI YUK WAN JULIA CHAN KIT YEE

3. Our school is a Band 1 school, the only EMI girls’ school in Tuen Mun.

4. DOLACEE workshops in 2004-2005 ILLIPS PROJECT for EMI teachers over the past few years - (Language Courses for Specific Subjects)

5. The courses greatly benefit our school’s EMI learning and teaching. They have enhanced our EMI teachers’ pedagogy, focusing on both the contents and the language objectives. A very important message – All teachers are language teachers.

6. Our school has gained great confidence in EMI pedagogy. We have gained official recognition from the EDB on the EMI implementation of our school.

7. Functional Grammar Workshops for all English teachers in 2008-2009 – Language & Literacy: Classroom Applications of Functional Grammar

8. Teachers’ worry: - Is there any contradiction between traditional grammar and functional grammar? - The answer is “No”

9. What is functional grammar? -Functional grammar links grammar to context. -It is relevant to both oral and written modes.

10. - Functional Grammar focuses on how people use appropriate language for different purposes and how texts vary to achieve these purposes.

11. - It is useful for teachers because it describes how and why language features differ across different genres.

12. - It provides a framework which shows how appropriate choices can be made to produce successful texts.

13. Focus on: 1. Genre 2. Register 3. Language system

14. Genre Theory Each genre is characterized by - distinctive schematic structures - Particular linguistic features to realize the purposes

15. Register: The particular situation in which a text is created

16. 3 features of register 1.Field 2. Tenor 3.Mode

17. Field – content, subject matter, who’s doing what to whom and where

18. They affect -the choice of words -the grammatical structures of a text

19. Mode – the difference between spoken & written language

20. Tenor – the roles & relationships between reader and writer, or speaker and listener.

21. Language system – 3 levels -Experiential meanings - a level of meaning -Interpersonal meanings - Textual meanings -a lexico–grammar level -an expression level

22. Interpersonal meanings Meanings we make as we interact with others

23. Through the choice of lexis and grammar, we can show our attitude, certainty, inclination, etc.