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A functional approach to teaching English tenses to speakers of other languages: the case of teaching English to adults in Serbia ...
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A genre-based investigation of Introduction and Method sections of research articles in clinical psychology: a systemic-functional perspective ...
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A genre-based investigation of Introduction and Method sections of research articles in clinical psychology: a systemic-functional perspective ...
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A functional approach to teaching English tenses to speakers of other languages: the case of teaching English to adults in Serbia ...
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This thesis investigates how a pedagogy based on systemic-functional linguistics (SFL) can benefit teaching English tenses to adults in Serbia. Using a functional tense description within the SFL-based teaching/learning cycle should benefit language learners because it foregrounds the logical architecture of tense selection in English texts. There is a gap in research, however, exploring possible SFL applications in teaching tenses in English as a second/foreign language. Data for this study were collected through surveys with 24 English teachers of adult learners in Serbia, followed by semi-structured interviews with three survey respondents. The findings indicate that, despite the influence of a form-focused grammar pedagogy on their current practices, the participant-teachers believe in the benefits of a text-based approach to teaching grammar through scaffolding. The study also suggests that learners struggle when tense forms reflect more than one temporal relation, arguably due to the Serbian tense ...
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URL: https://figshare.mq.edu.au/articles/thesis/A_functional_approach_to_teaching_English_tenses_to_speakers_of_other_languages_the_case_of_teaching_English_to_adults_in_Serbia/19442750 https://dx.doi.org/10.25949/19442750
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A genre-based investigation of Introduction and Method sections of research articles in clinical psychology: a systemic-functional perspective
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A functional approach to teaching English tenses to speakers of other languages: the case of teaching English to adults in Serbia
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