2021
DOI: 10.18806/tesl.v38i1.1350
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Promoting ESL Students’ Critical Thinking Skills Through a Transitivity Analysis of Authentic Materials

Abstract: Using authentic materials in the English as a second language (ESL) classroom can develop students’ critical thinking (CT) skills, expose them to more realistic English, and support their motivation. Carrying out text analyses of authentic materials in the ESL classroom can also help students become more critical in their approach to reading. Grounded in systemic functional linguistics (SFL) concepts, this paper puts forward a series of text analysis tasks, so ESL teachers can introduce their adult students to… Show more

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“…Moreover, the text is a social practice that often perpetuates social inequality, injustice, and domination. CDA aims to study how values and ideology work in texts manifested through language (Marin & Copeland, 2022;Steinert, Marin, & Roeser, 2022;Velasco, 2021). The emphasis on language is the urgency of this study, which uses Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) as an analytical tool to examine how grammar and lexical choices form networks of meaning in texts.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Moreover, the text is a social practice that often perpetuates social inequality, injustice, and domination. CDA aims to study how values and ideology work in texts manifested through language (Marin & Copeland, 2022;Steinert, Marin, & Roeser, 2022;Velasco, 2021). The emphasis on language is the urgency of this study, which uses Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) as an analytical tool to examine how grammar and lexical choices form networks of meaning in texts.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Newspaper is a platform that provides a wide range of information regarding aspects of life. News article, printed and electronic, not only brings information to the readers but more profoundly acts as a reference for seeing issues that currently happen in real life (Velasco, 2021). Accordingly, writing for the newspaper requires high diligence and a wide variety of languages to deliver the news in a well-structured text.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%