Introduction

 


Task Description

This assessment task requires you to undertake a grammatical analysis of a critical social event. You should

  • locate at least two media texts and
  • conduct a grammatical analysis of the texts drawing upon your grammatical knowledge.

The critical social event should take place in the past three years and should have attracted significant media attention. Your grammatical analysis will include:

  • a description of the social event;
  • an identification of salient grammatical features and/or issues at stake in the texts (referring to Module 2);
  • connections with the related grammar beliefs, theories, principles, and/or histories of English (referring to Modules 1 &3); and
  • recommendations for using similar texts in teaching and learning English as a second/additional language teaching and learning (referring to Module 3).

 

Introduction

In this assignment I will be undertaking a grammatical analysis of 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. I will examine the salient grammatical features of these two texts and the issues through the lens of Systematic Functional Linguistics and specifically the place of genre. I will then recommend and explain the reasons for the usage of similar texts in the teaching and learning of English as a second/additional language.

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