Conclusion


A grammatical analysis was conducted on two news articles appearing in a written/digital format on the critical social event of the riots in Alice Springs and the curfews that subsequently followed. An analysis of the salient features of the two texts, including the font and layout, examined the similarities and differences between them. A genre analysis of the two news articles and their similarities and differences was also performed using Swales’ moves to view the linguistic features and rhetorical function of the texts. The genre of the news article was then analysed through the lens of Systematic Functional Linguistics using the three kinds of meaning, or metafunctions, which represent the physical, social and mental world. These three metafunctions are related to three register groups explaining grammatical choices and how they affect the contextual meaning of a sentence.

Finally, I recommended and explained the reasons for employing the use of similar texts in the teaching and learning of English as a second/additional language. Possible teaching strategies were given noting the value of authentic, relevant texts for the learning of English as a global and international language.

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