Text-based Language Teaching

The purpose of this resource is to provide an overview of language teaching from a social perspective based on recent developments in Anthropology, Sociology and Systemic-functional Linguistics. It suggests a practical teaching methodology inside a language classroom with specific guidance in designing a language course and strategies to conduct assessment in the text-based approach. The content of this resource offers various benefits to postgraduate students in TESOL, TLOTE, beginning English/LOTE teachers and teacher trainers since it presents a new functional approach to language and language teaching in an introductory and readable way.

Text-based Language Teaching is a helpful, sufficient guide and relevant response to the need for English language/LOTE teachers to teach the whole text in light of current developments in Systemic-functional Linguistics which focuses on the purposes and uses of language in a social context.

Contents

• Chapter 1: What is a text?
• Chapter 2: Towards a text-based teaching methodology
• Chapter 3: Adopting the text-based methodology to teach spoken exchanges: Request information or goods and services
• Chapter 4: Designing a course in the text-based approach
• Chapter 5: Assessment in the text-based approach
• Chapter 6: Learner texts
• References

About the Author

Minh Duc Thai lectures in Linguistics and Translation at School of Humanities and Languages, University of Western Sydney. He has had quite extensive teaching experience in TESOL and teacher training experience in various TESOL contexts including colleges in South Western Sydney Institute of TAFE, NSW AMES, Macarthur English Language Centre, Intensive English Centres (IECs) of New South Wales Department of Education and Training (NSW DET) as well as overseas educational institutes in Hong Kong and Vietnam. He is currently Co-ordinator of English for Further Study Program at Bankstown Senior College of NSW DET. His areas of research include: TESOL, Systemic-functional Grammar, Translation and Language Acquisition.