Affiliation:
1. University of Technology Sydney
Abstract
Abstract
This study reports on a four-semester teaching programme for foreign language (FL) intermediate writing abilities
in Spanish to be implemented in educational practice. The study conducts qualitative analysis, drawing on systemic functional
linguistics (SFL), of developmental changes in twenty undergraduate, Spanish Level 4 students, based on their performance of, and
comments on, pre- and post-instructional written tasks, focusing on meaning-making choices in the construction of a historical
recount genre over one semester of instruction at an Australian university. Responding to the need for research on academic
writing in FL, the paper shows that SFL facilitates students’ understanding of writing development in an FL as they explore
textual, ideational and interpersonal meanings in conjunction with required lexicogrammatical choices to fulfil the rhetorical
demands of this genre.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Subject
General Earth and Planetary Sciences,General Environmental Science
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