Table for text analysis

This table is a guide to text analysi

Handout Embedding exercises

Selected slides covering embedding presentation during our second clas

Texts for analysis

Students should bring this to class

Exploring Functional Grammar. 2° Edition

This volume, Exploring Functional Grammar. 2° Edition, the second of the first three e-books of a new series entitled, Functional Grammar Studies for Non-Native Speakers of English, which is contained within the superordinate: Quaderni del Centro di Studi Linguistico-Culturali (CeSLiC), a research center in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages of the University of Bologna. The series proposes a metalinguistic description of English grammar in a functional, socio-semiotic perspective and is proving to be an effective teaching/learning resource for improving English literacy outcomes in the L2 pedagogic setting. The principal ‘consumers’ of the series are the students of the English Language Studies Program (ELSP) in Bologna’s Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature, for whom it provides the basic course-book in each of their three years of the first-level degree course. The principles and techniques of FG and appraisal theory, introduced in the first year, are further explored in this second volume and applied to short authentic texts, in order to increase the students’ awareness of how meanings are constructed in and by language

Josephine and Morgana dialogue

The text will be used in class as an exercise on identifying projecting and projected clauses, reported and quoted locutions and ideas, and Verbal Group Complexe

Selected slides from our first class

These slides are also part of a special lecture held at the University of Pavia. Copies also available at the two copyshops in Via Cartoleri

Practice in Functional Grammar: A Workbook for Beginners and Intermediate Students, with keys

The volume is the companion workbook to the first two coursebooks especially designed by the editor and adopted in the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature of the University of Bologna, but also elsewhere on the international scene. It is the start of a three-year metalinguistic reflection that students of the English Language Studies Program are given, alongside their traditional EFL practice classes. The linguistic theory introduced here is also a social theory - a way of looking at language as a social behaviour, a social semiotic. The volume, and the entire series, put into practice an explicit pedagogy that would make the workings of language as visible, and as attainable, as possible for the students, and would empower them socio-linguistically, through an increasing awareness of the functions of language in context, and in culture