Conference papers

Grammar and Praxis: investigating a grammatics for twenty-first century school English (2011–2014)

CI Macken-Horarik, CI Love, CI Unsworth and SRA Sandiford have given several papers about the research at conferences.

2011

The team presented research framework and some initial data from narrative at the International Systemic Functional Congress (ISFC).

2012

Macken-Horarik, Love and Sandiford gave three papers at the Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association Conference (ASFLA).

2013

Macken-Horarik delivered the Garth Boomer address at the national conference of Australian Association for the Teaching of English (AATE) and a plenary address at the Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association Conference (ASFLA) in Melbourne.

Macken-Horarik co-authored and presented a paper with Carmel Sandiford and with Len Unsworth at the ALSFAL Congress in Chile from which two papers have been produced and Macken-Horarik & Sandiford (see Publications).

2014

Macken-Horarik gave a plenary address about the findings and the emerging framework for exploring teacher knowledge about language at the International Systemic Functional Congress (ISFC) in Mendoza, Argentina.

Workshops and seminars

Findings have been disseminated at workshops and seminars at several universities (e.g. UNE and ACU at both Sydney and Melbourne campuses) and at University of Sydney in 2013). Several school teachers from NSW and Victoria who were involved in the grammatics project also presented their findings at ASFLA conference in 2013.