Michael Halliday passed away on 15 April 2018 at the age of 93. He developed the internationally influential Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) of English, which transformed teaching in Australia and is now embedded within the Australian Curriculum. This seminar revisits some of the key ideas brought forward by Halliday. In essence, his functional grammar recognised language as choice, contextualised within culture and situation of use. In this informal seminar, presenters from the School of Education and the School of Languages and Cultures will reflect on Halliday’s contributions to their fields.
Dr. Peter Crosthwaite
The notion of cohesion in text linguistics as presented in Halliday’s seminal 1976 volume with his wife Ruqaiya Hasan.
Dr. Peter Crosthwaite is a lecturer in applied linguistics at the School of Languages and Cultures, UQ, and has recently published research that combines SFL approaches with corpus analyses
Dr. Noriko Iwashita
Contribution of SFL to research in language assessment and the analysis of test discourse.
Noriko is a senior lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the School of Languages and Cultures, UQ, and Co-president of the Association for Language Testing and Assessment of Australia and New Zealand, and is also an executive board member at the Applied Linguistics Association for Australia (ALLA).
Dr. Obaid Hamid
Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) across the world: The Chinese context - An example of the influence of Hallidayan linguistics in the world.
Obaid Hamid is a senior lecturer in TESOL education at the School of Education, UQ. He is on the editorial boards of Journal of Asia TEFL, Current Issues in Language Planning, and English Teaching: Practice & Critique.
Dr. Simone Smala
How SFL was embraced in Australian schools- some examples from literacy and English materials for primary and secondary schools
Simone is a lecturer in teacher education at the School of Education, UQ, has used SFL in teaching English and languages and is part of the Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) Research Network of the International Applied Linguistics Association (AILA)
Date: Friday 11 May 2018
Time: 2pm
Venue: Social Sciences Building (24), room 302