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Systemic Functional Linguistics for the self-taught – Part 2

Laetitia Monbec, with grateful acknowledgement of Rob Playfair’s participation. In part 1, A reading path for the SFL self-taught, the aim was to provide resources to explore SFL theory and its implementation, for practitioners with no formal training in functional linguistics. The concept of the self-taught was used, but left unquestioned. In this second post…

Systemic Functional Linguistics for the self-taught – Part 1

By Laetitia Monbec The recent BALEAP ResTES brought together a few Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) practitioners/scholars to discuss the power of the theory for scholarship and the impact it can have on professional practice and on student learning. This blog picks up a few of the thought-provoking themes that were discussed by the participants (and…

Being a Teaching & Learning Champion

In our institution, we have a small team of EAP practitioners. As is the case in many institutions (in the UK at least), scholarship is encouraged (specifically in terms of promotion, yet not workloaded), but it’s hard to find the time… In an effort to afford the team some space for conversations around scholarship we…

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