A series of research projects are bringing together LCT with SFL in innovative and fruitful ways to explore a wide variety of issues. These studies are at the cutting-edge of theoretical development in both social realist sociology of education and SFL and are leading to the emergence of exciting new ideas that span between disciplines.
A useful introduction into the history of relations between LCT and SFL can be found in:
Martin, J. R. (2011) Bridging troubled waters: Interdisciplinarity and what makes it stick. in Christie, F. & Maton, K. (eds.) Disciplinarity: Functional linguistic and sociological perspectives. London, Continuum, 35-61.
CUMULATIVE LEARNING
What enables or constrains cumulative learning, where what is learned builds on and integrates past understanding, is the focus of a major study of history and biology in secondary schooling, involving Karl Maton and J.R. Martin. It brings together Specialisation, Semantics and Temporality from LCT with Appraisal Theory from SFL. This research is being funded by the following grant:
ARC Discovery Project grant ($360K, 2009-2011) Freebody, Martin & Maton Disciplinarity, Knowledge and Schooling: Analysing and improving integrated, cumulative learning in classrooms.
Audio and slides for a summary talk on the project can be found at:
Maton, K. (2011) Semantic waves: How to help students experience cumulative learning, ERIN Lecture Series of Senior Educational Researchers, Newcastle University, Australia, Oct.
Several papers have already emerged from this project:
Matruglio, E., Maton, K. & Martin, J.R. (2011) Waves through time: Temporality and the semantic wave, Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association National Conference, University of New England, Armidale, Sept.
Macnaught, L., Matruglio, E., Maton, K. & Martin, J.R. (2011) Jointly constructing the semantic wave in teacher training, Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association National Conference, University of New England, Armidale, Sept.
Martin, J.R. (2011) Embedded literacy: Knowledge as meaning, Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association National Conference, University of New England, Armidale, Sept.
Martin, J., Maton, K. & Matruglio, E. (2010) Historical cosmologies: Epistemology and axiology in Australian secondary school history, Revista Signos 43(74): 433-463.
Martin, J.R. & Matruglio, E. (2010) Ancient History is bringing me down: Interdisciplinary analysis at work, 4th Annual International Free Linguistics Conference, University of Sydney, October.
Martin, J.R., Maton, K. & Matruglio, E. (2010) Historical cosmologies: Epistemology and axiology in Australian secondary school history, The Halliday Centre for Intelligent Applications of Language Studies Pearling Appliable Linguistics Seminar Series, City University of Hong Kong, Sept.
Martin, J. & Matruglio, E. (2010) Flights of fancy: A functional linguistic interpretation of semantic gravity and semantic density in secondary school history teaching, paper presented at Sixth Basil Bernstein International Symposium, Brisbane, June-July.
Martin, J.R. & Matruglio, E. (2009) The logogenesis of knowledge: teaching history, paper presented at ALSFAL (Latin American Systemic Functional Linguistics Association) Annual Conference, Mar del Plata, Argentina.
See also: Matruglio, E. (2008) Semantic gravity meets Appraisal: What knowledge in schools?, Disciplinarity, Knowledge & Language: An international symposium, University of Sydney, Dec.
School English
The issue of cumulative and segmented learning is also being explored in relation to school English by Frances Christie.
Christie, F. (2011) Keynote paper: Knowledge structures and schoool literacy studies, International Systemic Functional Congress 38, Lisbon, July.
Christie, F. (2010) Making sense of 'The Journey': A case study in segmental pedagogy in senior secondary school subject English, paper presented at Sixth Basil Bernstein International Symposium, Brisbane, June-July.
Maton, K. (2009) Cumulative and segmented learning: Exploring the role of curriculum structures in knowledge-building, British Journal of Sociology of Education, 30(1): 43-57.
Other papers
Guo, L., Gong, W. & Huaqing, H. (2011) Cumulative and segmented learning in secondary mathematics and English: an exploratory study, International Systemic Functional Congress 38, Lisbon, July.
Hao, J. (2011) Are you aligning students, or aligning me?, International Systemic Functional Congress 38, Lisbon, July.
Hao, J. (2011) Investigating development of ‘semantic waves’ in undergraduate biology, Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association National Conference, University of New England, Armidale, Sept.
McCabe, A. (2011) First-year university writing: Creating a cultivated gaze, International Systemic Functional Congress 38, Lisbon, July.
ACADEMIC LITERACIES & DISCIPLINARY WRITING
The issue of how writing differs between disciplines is the focus of Sue Hood (UTS, Australia), who has been a key impulse in bringing together LCT with SFL.
Hood, S. (2011) Keynote paper - Travelling into interdisciplinary space: Making sense of worlds of difference, International Systemic Functional Congress, Lisbon, July.
Hood, S. (2011) Writing discipline: Comparing inscriptions of knowledge and knowers in academic writing, in Christie, F. & Maton, K. (eds.) Disciplinarity: Functional linguistic and sociological perspectives. London, Continuum.
Hood, S. (2010) Appraising Research: Evaluation in Academic Writing. London, Palgrave (especially chapter 6).
Hood, S. (2010) Language and legitimation: Disciplinary differences in constructing space for new knowledge, he Halliday Centre for Intelligent Applications of Language Studies Pearling Appliable Linguistics Seminar Series, City University of Hong Kong, Oct.
Hood, S. (2010) 'I was there': Recontextualising story genres into academic writing, paper presented at 22nd European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference, Koper, Slovenia, July.
Coffin, C. & Hood, S. (2010) Researching disciplinary writing : Research methods for investigating academic writing: practices and text perspectives, International Systemic Functional Linguistics Association Conference, Vancouver, July.
Hood, S. (2010) Legitimising research differently in different intellectual fields: Instantiating different knowledge-knower structures, paper presented at Sixth Basil Bernstein International Symposium, Brisbane, June-July.
Hood, S. (2008) Tracking inscriptions of knowledge and knowers in academic writing, Disciplinarity, Knowledge & Language: An international symposium, University of Sydney, Dec.
Hood, S. (2007) Arguing in and across disciplinary boundaries: Legitimising stategies in applied linguistics and cultural studies, in McCabe, A., O’Donnell, M., & Whittaker, R. (Eds) Advances in Language and Education. London: Continuum.
Maton, K. & Hood, S. (2005) The languages of disciplinarity: knowledge, knowers and recontextualisation. Discourses of Hope: International Systemic Functional Congress, July 2005: Sydney University
Hood, S. (2004) Ways of writing, ways of knowing: exploring the epistemological implications of writer voice in academic research papers. Reclaiming Knowledge: registers of discourse in the community and school, Conference, University of Sydney, Dec.
HIGHER EDUCATION CURRICULUM
Kathy Luckett (University of Cape Town, South Africa) brings together LCT and SFL to explore sociology in the university curriculum.
Luckett, K. (2010) Disciplinarity in question: Comparing knowledge and knower codes in sociology, Research Papers in Education, 1-22.
Luckett, K. (2009) The relationship between knowledge structure and curriculum: a case study in sociology, Studies in Higher Education, 34(4): 441-453.
Luckett, K. (2008) Operationalising Bernstein’s concept of grammaticality in the discipline of Sociology using systemic functional linguistics, Disciplinarity, Knowledge & Language: An international symposium, University of Sydney, Dec.
Luckett, K. & McEwan, H. (2008) Relationship between knowledge structure and curriculum structure: A case study in Sociology, Higher Education Close-Up 4, University of Cape Town, June.
INTERNATIONALISATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION
In her PhD and several subsequent papers, Cathie Doherty (QUT, Australia) was one of the first thinkers to bring together new ideas from LCT and systemic functional linguistics.
Doherty, C. (2010) Doing business: knowledges in the internationalised business lecture, Higher Education Research & Development, 29(3): 245-258.
Doherty, C. (2008) Student subsidy of the internationalized curriculum: Knowing, voicing and producing the Other. Pedagogy, Culture and Society 16(3), 269-288.
Cathie Doherty (2007) The Production of Cultural Difference and Cultural Sameness in Online Internationalised Education, unpublished PhD thesis, Queensland University of Technology, Australia.
SECOND-LANGUAGE LEARNING
Yi, L. (2011) Bernsteinian perspectives on the Reading to Learn program, Annual Review of Functional Linguistics in China, 3: 109-123.
Liu Yi (PhD, current) Reinstantiation of Meanings in Scaffolding ESL Academic Literacy: Reading to Learn Program Adapted in a Tertiary Setting, Zhongshan University, China.
Anna-Vera Meidell Sigsgaard (PhD, current) Danish as a Second Language: A socio-semiotic study of the school subject, its didactics and the construction of its students, Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark
YOUTH JUSTICE CONFERENCING
Martin, J.R., Zappavigna, M., Cleirigh, C. & Dwyer, P. (in press) Users in uses of language: embodied identity in Youth Justice Conferencing, Text and Talk.
Martin, J.R., Zappavigna, M. & Dwyer, P. (2012) Beyond redemption: Choice and consequence in Youth Justice Conferencing, in F. Yan & J.J. Webster (eds) Developing Systemic Functional Linguistics: Theory and application, London: Equinox.
Martin, J.R., Zappavigna, M. & Dwyer, P. (2011) Angry boys: Casting identity in NSW Youth Justice Conferencing, Language and the Law: Special event of ALAA, ALANZ & ALS conferences, Canberra, Dec.
Zappavigna, M. (2011) Keynote paper - Analysing body language in NSW Youth Justice Conferencing, Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association National Conference, University of New England, Armidale, Sept.
Martin, J.R. (2010) Plenary paper - Beyond redemption: Faith, choice and consequence in youth justice conferencing, 12th International and National Conference on Discourse Analysis, Tongji University, Shanghai, China, Nov.
Martin, J.R. & Zappavigna, M. (2010) Beyond redemption: Choice and consequence in Youth Justice Conferencing, in F. Yan (ed) Proceedings of the 36th International Systemic Functional Linguistics Association Conference. Beijing, Higher Education Press.
Martin, J.R. (2009) Realisation, instantiation and individuation: Some thoughts on identity in youth justice conferencing. DELTA - Documentação de Estudos em Linguistica Teorica e Aplicada 25. 2009. 549-583. (Also Keynote paper, 36th International Systemic Functional Congress, Tsinghua University, China, July 2009).
NATIONAL IDENTITY
Tann, K. (2010) The language of identity discourse: Introducing a framework for functional iconography, paper presented at the Free Linguistics conference, October, University of Sydney.
Ken Tann (PhD, submitted 2010) Semogenesis of a Nation: An iconography of Japanese identity, Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney, Australia
OTHER PAPERS
Online teaching and learning
Jo Lander (PhD, current) Online Discourse: Learning online in postgraduate public health education: Expectations, experiences and the enactment of pedagogy, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.
Forms of presentation in teaching
Djonov, E., Doran, Y. & Hood, S. (2011) Presenting and interacting with knowledge in different disciplines: The role of language, body and presentation technologies in face-to-face undergraduate lectures, Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association National Conference, University of New England, Armidale, Sept.
Parliamentary politics
Sieborger, I. et al (2011) Spatial negotation as recontextualisation in the Parliament of the Republic of South Africa, Mobility, Language, Literacy conference, University of Cape Town, Jan.