1. Theoretical/Philosophical Foundation in English Language Training
Presented by
I Made Sujana
english education department
fkip - unram

2. Warming up Continue the following extract:
innalillahi wainna ilahirojiun
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3. Warming up
Once upon a time, _____________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. How to Make Fried Noodle
Warming Up
How to Make Fried Noodle
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5. Questions How do you know that each text has different development?
What make them different?

6. CULTURE GENRE SITUATION REGISTER TEXT (PURPOSE) Who is involved?
Derewianka, 1995
GENRE
(PURPOSE)
REGISTER
SITUATION
Who is involved?
(Tenor)
The subject matter
The channel
(Field)
(Mode)
TEXT

7. The Context of Culture
The attitudes, values and shared experiences of any group of people living in the one culture.
Culturally evolved expectations of ways of behaving
Culturally evolved ways of getting things done or of achieving common goals (genre)
buying and selling goods
directing someone to the bank
recounting recent events
arguing a point of view

8. Register Field: the social activity taking place.
(football, cooking, stamp collecting, studying history, economics)
Tenor: the relationship between participants.
Power (equal or unequal status)
Contact (how often you have contact with the person to whom you are speaking or writing)
Affect (attitudes and feelings towards topics and participants)

9. Mode: the channel of linguistic communication.
Register … continued
Mode: the channel of linguistic communication.
Distance in space and distance in time between speaker/listener and reader/writer
Distance between text and the events being referred to, such as listening to cooking demonstration on TV; relating the TV demonstration to a friend; reading a recipe.

10. SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS THEORY IN ELT
SFL?
A functional-semantic approach to language which explores both:
(a) how people use language in different contexts; and
(b) how language is structured for use as a semiotic system.

11. FORMAL VS FUNTIONAL GRAMMAR
Primary concern
Unit of Analysis
Language level of concern
FORMAL
How is (should) this sentence be structured?
Sentence
Syntax
FUNCTIONAL
How are the meanings of this text realized?
Whole texts
Semantics

12. (cont.) Language Formal = A set of rules for sentence construction
= something we know
Functional
= a resource for making meaning
= something we do

13. Why SFL in ELT?: Relevance of SFL and Communicative Lang. Teaching?
Focuses on meanings and how language operates to make meaning at text levels.
Stresses how meanings are made/negotiated in actual communication.
Explores language based on its use in context of situation, which is realized in Language Register.

14. Levels of Literacy Epistemic Informational Functional Performative
Wells, 1987
Epistemic
Informational
Functional
Performative

15. PERFORMATIVE the code as code – an important part of becoming literate
simply a matter of acquiring:
those skills that allow a written message to be decoded into speech in order to ascertain its meaning
those skills that allow a spoken message to be encoded in writing, according to the conventions of letter formation, spelling and punctuation.
‘breaking the code’ of knowing the relationship between spoken and written symbols.

16. FUNCTIONAL
emphasises the uses that are made of literacy in interpersonal communication
is able to as a member of that particular society to cope with the demands of everyday life that involve written language.
reading a popular newspaper,
writing a job application,
following procedural instructions
the dividing line between literacy and illiteracy

17. INFORMATIONAL
focuses on the role that literacy plays in the communication of knowledge, particularly discipline-based knowledge
the curricular emphasis on reading and writing – but particularly reading
the student’s use for accessing the accumulated knowledge in order to construct a meaning which reciprocate the intention of the writer
‘being a text participant’ (able to ‘comprehend’ the text)

18. EPISTEMIC
to have available ways of acting upon and transforming knowledge and experience that are in general unavailable to those who have never learned to read and write
the aesthetic aspect of language as art (literature, poetry)