From John Knox: The
M. App. Ling. program at Macquarie Uni in
LING900: grammar meaning & discourse [available also in online mode]
LING907: stylistics
LING913: literacy
LING936: context, use and analysis of the english language
(available also in online mode)
LING954:
linguistics and language teaching
(only offered in
the postgraduate certificate in TESOL)
(available also in online mode)
A number of other units are broadly informed by a Hallidayan perspective on language. More at: http://www.ling.mq.edu.au/postgraduate/units.htm
From Claire Scott:
From Caroline Coffine: The Centre for Language and Communications, The Faculty of Education and Language Studies Staff who work with SFL (to a greater or lesser extent): Caroline Coffin, Sharon Goodman, Ann Hewings, Theresa Lillis, Sarah North, Kieran O’Halloran, Barbara Mayor, Neil Mercer.
SFL informs a great deal of our
distance teaching
at both undergraduate and postgraduate level and is particularly
prominent in
the courses detailed below. These form part of our degrees in Applied
Linguistics, English Language and Literature and Modern Language
Studies.
However, they can also be taken as part of a diploma or as free
standing
modules. In the Open University system an undergraduate degree consists
of 6
courses and a postgraduate degree 3 courses.
Therefore
each course is quite sizeable and equivalent to a year’s part
time
study. All
distance courses are available for study in the
· English Grammar in Context (undergraduate) (E303)
· English Language and Literacy (undergraduate) (E300)
· Language and Literacy in a Changing World (postgraduate) (E844)
· Teaching English to Speakers of other Languages World (postgraduate) (E841)
In 2005 the OU will also present a new undergraduate language and literature course - The Art of English - in which there is some use of SFL as a tool to illuminate the nature of verbal art.
The Open University
Walton Hall
MK76AA
+44(0)1908 653231 general-enquiries@open.ac.uk
Felicitas MacGilchrist adds: the E841 online postgraduate course for teachers (TESOL) gives a good introduction to SFL (run in conjunction with Macquarie Uni). This course alone is worth a 'Postgraduate Certificate', adding more leads to the MA/MEd.
Anouk Lang adds: I taught E303
last year (and am no longer teaching). It's not exclusively SFL -
there's corpus linguistics, some traditional grammar and other bits and
pieces like forensic linguistics in there. It gives a decent grounding
in register analysis, though not much more. It's third-year
undergraduate level, and can be studied by those in the UK, Ireland or
mainland Europe. I believe it can also be studied through the Arab Open
University.
From Lexie
Donn: the distance MAs in TEFL, applied lingusitics, and
translation studies at the university of Birmingham all have a module/6
unit
course called 'an introduction to functional grammar', the notes
originally
written by Peter White in 2001. The distance course is based on notes
and
readings, and very little personal, directed tutoring in each module,
although
there are provisions for limited guidance. From my experience, it looks
as if
the
Emily Purser: there
was also a course in functional grammar online at
From Rob Spence: I'm working on an online course for teaching SFG of English to translation students with native language German or French, but it won't be ready for another couple of semesters. There are masses of CMS-related problems to be solved before I can get anything on the net.
Donna Miller says there are downloadable course books available from:
http://www.lingue.unibo.it/ceslic/e_libri_1_func_grammar.htm
The 1st course book is being used within an e-learning course for our students: see:
http://www.facli.unibo.it/Lingue/Didattica/Corsi+in+e-learning/default.htm