Writing Scene

One of the primary things that a teacher should think before giving a writing task is the stages that it involves. The first one is the pre-writing task in which we have to design a task step by step. That implies thinking about the subskills students will need, such as topics, background knowledge, vocabulary, grammar, discourse, etc. For instance, if the focus is on the topic we can ask the students what are they going to write about and,  what notions they want to reflect on the writing. Besides, we can use associograms to help them brainstorm, prompts by including images, music, or interviews which help them to contextualize what they are going to write. All of them are fruitful for generating ideas, topics, or building vocabulary for their writing. The second stage is during-writing. While students write, the teacher has to give guidance in order to improve their writing, for example, he/she can ask what caused the event they are writing about or help them to describe the ma...

Systemic Functional Linguistics is a theory of language which explains what language is. It is also an approach to language that considers it as a social semiotic system. Language is used to make sense of the world by making exchanges that need interaction among people in a particular situation and cultural context. The exchanges follow instructions that are analyzed by the metafunctions of language. The first function is "interpersonal", which means it needs to enact social relationships to negotiate and construct meaning. The second one is "textual function", which is used to analyze the link among complex ideas in order to make them cohesive and coherent. The last one is "Ideational function", which includes talking about experiences, place, relationships, and circumstances in which events occur.   The SFL  is also analyzed at the level of discourse which implies considering Genre, Register, and Text. Besides, in the book  Genre, Text, Grammar  are incl...