Critical SFL praxis in teacher education: Looking backward and looking forward (Introduction to special issue on Systemic Functional Linguistics as Critical Praxis in Teacher Education: Looking Backward and Looking Forward)

Abstract

This special issue explores the affordances and limitations of systemic functional linguistics (SFL) as a critical social praxis, specifically within the context of teacher education. We define Critical SFL Praxis (CSFLP) as a social activist approach to teacher education that develops teachers' ability to enact language use in literacy instruction to support learners in seeing, using, and challenging the nature of text/context relationships within and outside institutions through SFL. In this way, CSFLP focuses on preparing teachers to teach students to be adaptive and reflective, and thereby critical, in the process of deploying their language resources to achieve their own social purposes. The articles of this special issue depict both the history of CSFLP and the future possibilities for this work in teacher education.

Seeing Beyond Words: Metafunctions Analysis of Efl Textbooks

“…The interaction of these ideational, interpersonal, and textual metafunctions highlights how EFL textbooks approach language learning with a pedagogically informed approach. The robustness of these findings is strengthened by matching findings with previous research, highlighting similar patterns across various educational settings (Troyan et al, 2022). These linguistic characteristics help learners build their language skills while improving their communicative competence and scaffolding their engagement with knowledge.…”

Unlocking the Potential of Systemic Functional Linguistics for Corrective Feedback in EFL Classroom Interactions

“…In this case, there should be an agreement toward the consensus saying that Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) has the potential to manage discourse moves and commodity exchanges in EFL classrooms. These results provide convincing evidence that the incorporation of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) concepts into EFL instruction allows teachers to encourage more effective discourse strategies, learning resources, social proposes enabling richer and more involved interactions between teacher and students and among students themselves [71]. In order to help teachers and students achieve stronger communication and language proficiency, the significance of incorporating Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) into language teaching is essential.…”