Professor M. Cecilia Colombi taught at Pre-Congress Institute of ISFC 40

Last updated:2013-07-10

Professor M. Cecilia Colombi from the University of California at Davis taught the 3^rd day workshop of Pre-Congress Institute of ISFC40, which centered on the relationship between Foreign Language Teaching and Systemic Functional Linguistics. Professor Colombi focused on the following aspects in her workshop: SFL and educational linguistics, Oral-Written language continuum, academic language, grammatical metaphor, and second language teaching.


Professor Colombi began by looking at the appliability of SFL in the field of foreign language teaching. She then examined the potential of Systemic Functional Linguistics in a curriculum for Spanish second language learners/heritage speakers, with particular emphasis on the meaning-making of language in the construal of discourse. Professor. Colombi also presented examples of activities used in the classroom. The presentation offers many ideas that can be applied to other foreign language teaching situations.


Written by: Qiu Qing
Photographer: Hua Yi