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
Our school is a Band 1 school, the
only EMI girls’ school in Tuen Mun.
DOLACEE workshops in 2004-2005
ILLIPS PROJECT for EMI teachers
over the past few years (Language Courses for Specific
Subjects)
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.
• Our school has gained great
confidence in EMI pedagogy.
• We have gained official recognition
from the EDB on the EMI
implementation of our school.
• Functional Grammar
Workshops for all English
teachers in 2008-2009 –
Language & Literacy:
Classroom Applications of
Functional Grammar
Teachers’ worry:
- Is there any contradiction
between traditional grammar
and functional grammar?
- The answer is “No”
What is functional grammar?
- Functional grammar links
grammar to context.
- It is relevant to both oral and
written modes.
- Functional Grammar focuses
on how people use appropriate
language for different purposes
and how texts vary to achieve
these purposes.
- It is useful for teachers
because it describes how and
why language features differ
across different genres.
- It provides a framework which
shows how appropriate
choices can be made to
produce successful texts.
Focus on: 1. Genre
2. Register
3. Language system
Genre Theory
Each genre is characterized by
- distinctive schematic structures
- Particular linguistic features to
realize the purposes
Register:
The particular situation in which
a text is created
3 features of register
1.Field
2. Tenor
3.Mode
Field – content, subject matter,
who’s doing what to
whom and where
They affect
- the choice of words
- the grammatical structures of
a text
Mode – the difference between
spoken & written
language
Tenor – the roles & relationships
between reader and
writer, or speaker and
listener.
Language system – 3 levels
- a level of meaning
-Experiential meanings
-Interpersonal meanings
- Textual meanings
- a lexico–grammar level
- an expression level
Interpersonal meanings
Meanings we make as we
interact with others
Through the choice of lexis and
grammar, we can show our
attitude, certainty, inclination,
etc.