MASSA AGUSTIN ABEL
Capítulos de libros
Título:
Bringing Systemic Linguistics into the Text Production Classroom
Libro:
Actas del VIII Congreso Internacional de ALSFAL.
Editorial:
ALSFAL
Referencias:
Lugar: Montevideo; Año: 2013; p. 88 - 95
Resumen:
Systemic Functional Linguistics holds that language is: functional in terms of what it can do or what can be done with it; semantic as it is used to make meanings; semiotic as it is a process of making meanings by selecting from options that constitute what can be meant, and contextual since the meanings generated and exchanged are influenced by their sociao-cultural contexts (Halliday 1994, Eggins 2004).A frequently observed phenomenon in English students? writing in the first courses at National University of Córdoba is the low degree of content evaluation and apparent lack of awareness of the importance of expressing a text producers? attitude towards what is being stated.We work on the notion that language is a social phenomenon used to communicate and interact in some context of situation and context of culture, and also that language is a symbol representing social realities that take place in the context of situation and context of culture.Our aim is to throw light into the importance of bringing Systemic Linguistics into the text production classroom, highlighting the importance of providing students with the necessary tools to make strategic choices from a range of potentialities within the sociocultural framework of the linguistic community the trainees intend to belong to.