Modelling text as process : a dynamic approach to EFL classroom discourse

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    • 杨, 雪燕 ヨウ, セツエン yang, xue yan

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Modelling text as process : a dynamic approach to EFL classroom discourse

Xueyan Yang

Continuum, c2010

  • : hardback
  • : pbk

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Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--Beijing Normal University)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [274]-283) and index

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Volume

: hardback ISBN 9780826426192

Description

A discourse analysis that is not based on grammar is likely to end up as a running commentary on a text, whereas a grammar-based one tends to treat text as a finished product rather than an on-going process. This book offers an approach to discourse analysis that is both grammar-based and oriented towards text as process. It proposes a model called TEXT TYPE within the framework of Hallidayan systemic-functional linguistics, which views grammatical choices in a text not as elements that combine to form a clause structure, but as semantic features that link successive clauses into an unfolding phase. It then demonstrates the model in actual analyses of 10 texts transcribed from 10 class hours' audio-recorded EFL classroom discourse, which in turn leads to the establishment of a dynamic system network that can be applied to future analyses of the process of EFL classroom discourse. The book also uncovers interesting details about EFL classroom teaching and learning in the Chinese context, including variations in the classroom environment, features of the interaction process, and discourse strategies of the teachers and students. It will be essential reading for academics and postgraduates working in the fields of discourse analysis, second language acquisition and systemic functional linguistics.

Table of Contents

  • Foreword by Professor Zhuanglin Hu
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1. Introduction: setting the scene
  • Part I: Modelling text as process
  • 2. Exploration of the SFL philosophy
  • 3. Review of existing models
  • 4. Development of the TEXT TYPE model
  • Part II: Applying TEXT TYPE model to EFL classroom discourse
  • 5. Design of the application
  • 6. Interpersonal analysis of EFL classroom discourse
  • 7. Ideational analysis of EFL classroom discourse
  • 8. Textual analysis of EFL classroom discourse
  • 9. Conclusion
  • Appendices
  • Appendix I: Text 5 coded interpersonally
  • Appendix II: Text 5 coded ideationally
  • Appendix III: Text 5 coded textually
  • Appendix IV: Interpersonal, Ideational and Textual Logogenetic
  • Patterns in Text 5
  • References
  • Index.
Volume

: pbk ISBN 9781441178787

Description

A discourse analysis that is not based on grammar is likely to end up as a running commentary on a text, whereas a grammar-based one tends to treat text as a finished product rather than an on-going process. This book offers an approach to discourse analysis that is both grammar-based and oriented towards text as process. It proposes a model called TEXT TYPE within the framework of Hallidayan systemic-functional linguistics, which views grammatical choices in a text not as elements that combine to form a clause structure, but as semantic features that link successive clauses into an unfolding phase. It then demonstrates the model in actual analyses of 10 texts transcribed from 10 class hours' audio-recorded EFL classroom discourse, which in turn leads to the establishment of a dynamic system network that can be applied to future analyses of the process of EFL classroom discourse. The book also uncovers interesting details about EFL classroom teaching and learning in the Chinese context, including variations in the classroom environment, features of the interaction process, and discourse strategies of the teachers and students. It will be essential reading for academics and postgraduates working in the fields of discourse analysis, second language acquisition and systemic functional linguistics.

Table of Contents

  • Foreword by Professor Thuanglin Hu
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1. Introduction: setting the scene
  • Part I: Modelling text as process
  • 2. Exploration of the SFL philosophy
  • 3. Review of existing models
  • 4. Development of the TEXT TYPE model
  • Part II: Applying TEXT TYPE model to EFL classroom discourse
  • 5. Design of the application
  • 6. Interpersonal analysis of EFL classroom discourse
  • 7. Ideational analysis of EFL classroom discourse
  • 8. Textual analysis of EFL classroom discourse
  • 9. Conclusion
  • Appendices
  • Appendix I: Text 5 coded interpersonally
  • Appendix II: Text 5 coded ideationally
  • Appendix III: Text 5 coded textually
  • Appendix IV: Interpersonal, Ideational and Textual Logogenetic
  • Patterns in Text 5
  • References
  • Index.

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