Institute

Pre-ISFC 2008 Institute
14 -18 July 2008
Macquarie University
Sydney, Australia

The Theme of the Pre-International Systemic Functional Linguistics Congress 2008 Winter Institute is “Enabling researchers and teachers“. The Institute will offer courses aimed at enabling participants to carry out their research and practice teaching by offering new insights into language studies to advance ongoing projects and new skills to shed new light on teaching, and obtaining new materials such as reference documents.

The Pre-ISFC2008 Winter Institute is sponsored by the School of Languages and Linguistics, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, UNSW, NSW AMES (Adult Migrant English Services), and the Centre for Language in Social Life (CLSL), Macquarie University. It is now hosted by CLSL, and supported by ASFLA (Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics) and ISFLA (International Systemic Functional Linguistics Association).

The Institute will be held at Macquarie University’s spacious 126 hectare park-like campus which is located within the high-technology corridor of Sydney’s north-west.

Participants will have the opportunity to learn systemic functional theory of language in a practical interactive workshop; to learn how to carry out discourse analysis project work through interpretive arguments based on evidence; to learn how to develop curricula based on genre/register theory, how to engage students in analysis of various texts and to assess language development using SFL research tools in advanced foreign/second/heritage language education; to learn how to carry out multimodal analyses of both static and dynamic 2D multimodal artifacts; to learn how to use SFL in the TESOL classroom and carry out language-based assessment and report; and how to analyze various discourses in terms of interpersonal semantics, in particular, the system of appraisal.

Participants are encouraged to bring their own “projects” or ideas relating to research applications or teaching, so that, using this opportunity for further networking and collaborative projects, they can advance this project during the institute in workshops and in consultation with Institute lecturers. A number of projects will be showcased as models for future research in the Institute courses.

The local organizing committee members and the Institute lecturers are all looking forward to welcoming participants to this international event and enabling researchers and teachers for various appliable language-based studies and applications.

For more detailed and updated information, please visit the Institute website.

Email: isfc.institute@unsw.edu.au