Frances H. Christie
List of John Benjamins publications for which Frances H. Christie plays a role.
Archiving an academic legacy: The Halliday and Hasan Archive project Language, Context and Text 5:1, pp. 2–15 | Article
2023 Michael Halliday’s and Ruqaiya Hasan’s estates have been found to include a large amount of unpublished materials: draft papers, research notes, photographs, comments on student papers and so on. They comprise important elements of their legacy and a potential research resource. In this paper we… read more
2019
2005
Using the functional grammar to understand children’s written texts Language and Social Life: Functional perspectives, Love, Kristina (ed.), pp. 9–22 | Article
2005 This paper reports on an analysis of the assessment principles used in marking students’ written texts in the UK. It considers the assessment advice offered markers with respect to two stories written by 14 year old students in the Key Stage 3 English test in England. The observations offered on… read more
The study of language and subject English Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 27:1, pp. 15–29 | Article
2004 Applied linguistics has not sufficiently addressed theories of teaching subject English in the mainstream classroom. This is unfortunate because applied linguistic theories can offer a great deal to the development of a theory of subject English. Over the last century, subject English has changed… read more
2004
1998
Developing an educational linguistics for English language teaching: A systemic functional linguistic perspective Functions of Language 1:1, pp. 95–127 | Article
1994 The relevance of linguistic studies to educational practices has been an issue hotly debated for some time among specialists in English language education. Many such specialists have questioned the value of any linguistic insights, preferring to rely on various pedagogical theories, most of them… read more
The morning news genre: Using a functional grammar to illuminate educational issues Australian Applied Language Studies, McNamara, Tim F. (ed.), pp. 182–198 | Article
1987 This paper aims to demonstrate how Halliday’s Functional Grammar (1985) may be used to illuminate educational questions, more specifically to illuminate the study of classroom discourse. Portion of a text from the lower primary school is examined. It is in fact drawn from a Morning News learning… read more
1985
1984
English as a mother tongue: Teaching Language Planning, pp. 58–66 | Article
1982