I am a TESMC/LfL Tutor. How am I impacted? If you are already a TESMC/LfL Tutor, you have a choice between delivering the new TEMC/3L courses or delivering the previous TESMC/LfL courses. With your experience delivering TESMC/LfL and implementing the courses’ pedagogy in your school, we have …
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Tutors: Delivering your Teacher Course remotely
Dear colleagues, On behalf of the Lexis team, we send our best wishes to all of you during these uncertain and difficult times. We commend all of you who are working to maintain continuity of education and a much needed sense of normality for your students. The safety and well-being of our …
Explicit teaching of the narrative genre: a case study
The systemic functional model (e.g. Halliday and Hasan 1985, Halliday and Matthiessen 2004), on which all Lexis Education’s courses are based, has had an enormous impact on educational contexts in Australia and around the world. Genre-based pedagogy, where the teaching of grammar is part of an …
The power of nominalisation
As teachers, our role is to move students from spoken to written realms and from written to spoken. We call this moving across the register continuum. At one end of the continuum (left), there is the most spoken language which usually happens face-to-face and accompanies some kind of …
A whole school approach to SFL metalanguage
Language plays a central role in teaching and learning. If we want our students confidently reading and writing across the range of genres and registers required by schooling, then we need to understand how language works to make meaning. Our experience has shown us that the Systemic Functional …
How to be polite in English
When we interact with others, we are involved in four major exchanges: making statements, asking for information, offering something, or demanding something. The grammar for these exchanges is ‘played with’ for a range of purposes, such as asserting power, being sarcastic or being polite. In …