7103EDN English

What are the four types of verbs/processes described by the functional model of grammar?

1. Action 2. Saying 3. Sensing 4. Relating

What are the four roles of the reader?

1. Codebreaking 2. Meaning maker 3. Text user 4. Text analyst

"The zombies chased the dog" is an example of what kind of sentence?

Active

What does CLA stand for?

Critical language awareness

What are the main features of Traditional Grammar?

Decontextualises language into a set of rules, uses terms such as 'nouns', 'verbs', and 'adjectives'.

Australian curriculum strands...

Language, literacy, and literacture

The three strains from the AC:E? They are separate, however cannot be separated.

Language, literacy, literature

"The dog was chased by a zombie" is an example of what kind of sentence?

Passive

What is the role of the code breaker?

The code breaker makes use of the semiotics of aural, linguistic, visual, gestural, and spatial to begin unlocking the text.

What is visual literacy?

The skill used when analysing visual media and images and making sense of it. Ability to critically look at media and decode the techniques used to create that image.

What is the role of the text user?

The text user uses a text after breaking its code and making meaning of it. Different purposes are decided by the reader.

What are some salient language features of persuasive texts?

- Authoritative external evidence - Triple repetition - Appropriate tone and pace - Use of anecdote/personal narrative - Call to action - Humanisation (of the author; of useful characters) - Alignment with favourable other - Use of imperatives (modality) - Rhetorical questions - Use of disclaimers - Exaggeration/hyperbole - Cultural slang/lingo of the audience - Flattery of the audience - Inclusive pronouns - Evaluative language

How are narratives placed within the functional model of grammar in regard to field/tenor/mode?

- Field: plot, setting, characters/participants, processes, circumstances - Tenor: evaluative language, direct/indirect speech, thoughts, literary devices, punctuation, language of certainty/uncertainty - Mode: generic conventions, presentation

What are the three key areas of functional grammar when deconstructing texts with students?

1. Context 2. Social practices 3. Purpose Set of resources for students to construct and read the varied texts of their contemporary world

At the text level, functional model of grammar allows us to focus on three key areas wen we are deconstructing or constructing texts with students. These are...

1. Field 2. Tenor 3. Mode

What are the eight conditions relevant to all kinds of language learning?

1. Immersion 2. Demonstration 3. Engagement 4. Expectations 5. Responsibility 6. Approximation 7. Employment 8. Feedback

What are the ACARA capabilities

1. Literacy 2. Numeracy 3. ICT Capability 4. Critical/Creative Thinking 5. Personal/Social Capability 6. Ethical Understanding 7. Intercultural Understanding

What is the structural pattern of a narrative?

1. Orientation 2. Complication 3. Resolution 4. Coda/denoument

There are four theories that have underpinned English classes over the last few decades. What are they and when were they most prominent?

1. Skills/conservative (dominant til 60s/70s) 2. Liberal (80s) 3. Explicit genre (90s) 4. Social-critical (Contemporary)

"The dog was chased" is an example of what kind of sentence?

Agentless passive

What is a sentence?

An utterance that, baring special elements (such as a command), has both a subject and a verb

There are three types of modality. What are they?

Certainty (he definitely...), usuality (i usually...), and obligation (you must....)

What are the three text types?

Informative, persuasive, entertaining

What does KWL stand for?

Know, Want to learn, Learned

KAL stands for what?

Knowledge About Language

Evaluative language is what?

Language used to compare and contrast. Both adjectives and verbs. Gives a degree to the action (beautiful/ugly, run/ambled/stormed etc). Can be used subjectively or objectively. Also known as the language of appraisal

List some things that affect teachers.

NAPLAN, Education Queensland, social media, politics, parental/community expectations.

Nominalisation is the process of what?

Taking a verb and making it into a noun/noun phrase. Usually makes it an agentless passive sentence and is often used politically because it hides the doer.

What is the role of the meaning maker?

The meaning maker makes literal or inferential meaning using code breaking skills and prior "research" or cultural knowledge.

Field of knowledge, deconstructing, and constructing make up what?

The teaching/learning cycle

What is the role of the text analyst?

The text analyst must be critically literate, as they deduce who benefits and who is silenced by a text. They also exercise their values, attitudes, and beliefs while analysing a text.

What are the new models of English teaching (as defined in the textbook)?

• Cultural heritage model (students need to be aware of their cultural history but not indoctrinated/controlled by it) • Language skills model (students need to master language skills in a meaningful social & cultural context) • Personal growth model (including pleasure and enjoyment in reading. extended by a deeper understanding of contexts - historical, cultural & political) • Cultural studies/textuality (english as a subject is placed in a wider cultural context)