Martin on discourse semantics, genre, educational linguistics

Abstract

J. R. Martin is a leading scholar who has greatly developed the theoretical framework of systemic functional linguistics (SFL) over the past four decades. Some of these contributions, such as the systems of discourse semantics, the appraisal framework and genre relations have been widely applied in various areas of linguistic studies and language education. The educational linguistic model he and his colleagues have cultivated and developed has attracted the attention of more and more educators from different disciplines around the globe. In this interview, he firstly elaborates on the significance of the concepts of discourse semantics, grammatical metaphor and genre. Then he continues with applications of genre theory in secondary school education, language maintenance, the relation and collaboration between Legitimation Code Theory (LCT) and SFL, and how the two paradigms complement each other. Finally, he introduces some of his recent collaborations with grammarians of different languages.

Language Patterns in English Language Teaching: Virtual Educational Discourse

“…Discourse analysis as a research method (Anderson & Mungal, 2015;Anderson & Holloway, 2020) is applied to investigate university teachers' use of educational language in the context of the virtual educational environment. Moreover, following Martin et al, (2021) and Ojanola (2022), there is an attempt to reveal an education linguistic model (ELM) in teaching English in oral communication in virtual settings. For example, Ojanola (2022) found seven ELMs utilized by ESL teachers: «building rapport, acknowledging success, modelling, addressing challenging behaviours, scaffolding the learning, responding to the individual learner and selfmonitoring the teaching» (p. 64).…”