Understanding text as social practice. An exploration of the potential of systemic functional grammar to facilitate students' interpretation of media texts.

Autor/in	Clarence-Fincham, Jenny
Titel	Understanding text as social practice. An exploration of the potential of systemic functional grammar to facilitate students' interpretation of media texts.
Quelle	In: Per linguam, 16 (2000) 2, S. 15-30Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Anhang; Literaturangaben
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0259-2312
Schlagwörter	Empirische Forschung; Verstehen; Zeitung; Angewandte Linguistik; Funktionale Grammatik; Text; Textarbeit; Leseverstehen; Hochschule; Interpretation
Abstract	It has frequently been claimed that Halliday's Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) is a powerful linguistic tool which facilitates analytical and interpretative skills and provides a flexible, yet structured set of analytical tools with which to interpret texts. With this claim as a backdrop, the article asks whether SFG is, in fact an appropriate analytical approach for under-graduate students and whether it can facilitate their ability to analyse texts. Its context is a second level course, Analysing Media Texts, offered at Natal University. Broadly framed by critical discourse analysis, it traces the development of a thirteen week module and, using student analyses for illustrative purposes, identifies pedagogical challenges and difficulties that need to be confronted before any strong claims can be made. It is concluded that, on the evidence of students' responses to texts analysed during this course, it is not yet possible to make strong claims about the benefits of SFG. There is enough positive evidence, however, to pursue the possibility that with innovative curriculum development and the careful scaffolding and integration of concepts, SFG will be clearly shown to have an extremely important role to play. (Verlag).
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Update	2024/2