Frances H. Christie

List of John Benjamins publications in which Frances H. Christie is involved.

Caple, Helen, David Butt, Frances H. Christie and Y. J. Doran 2023 Archiving an academic legacy: The Halliday and Hasan Archive project Language, Context and Text 5:1, pp. 2–15 | Article

Michael Halliday’s and Ruqaiya Hasan’s estates have been found to include a large amount of unpublished materials: draft papers, research notes, photographs, comments on student papers and so on. They comprise important elements of their legacy and a potential research resource. In this paper we… read more

Christie, Frances H. 2019 Mary Macken-Horarik, Kristina Love, Carmel Sandiford & Len Unsworth Functional grammatics: Re-conceptualizing knowledge about language and image for school English  Language, Context and Text 1:2, pp. 388–392 | Review

Christie, Frances H. 2005 Review of Prevignano & Thibault (2003): Discussing Conversation Analysis. The works of Emanuel A. Schegloff Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 28:1, pp. 100–101 | Review

Christie, Frances H. 2005 Using the functional grammar to understand children’s written texts Language and Social Life: Functional perspectives, Love, Kristina (ed.), pp. 9–22 | Article

This paper reports on an analysis of the assessment principles used in marking students’ written texts in the UK. It considers the assessment advice offered markers with respect to two stories written by 14 year old students in the Key Stage 3 English test in England. The observations offered on… read more

Christie, Frances H. 2004 The study of language and subject English Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 27:1, pp. 15–29 | Article

Applied linguistics has not sufficiently addressed theories of teaching subject English in the mainstream classroom. This is unfortunate because applied linguistic theories can offer a great deal to the development of a theory of subject English. Over the last century, subject English has changed… read more

Christie, Frances H. 2004 Review of Iedema, Renkema, Pardo & Wodak (2003): Discourses of post-bureaucratic organization Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 27:1, pp. 120–122 | Review

Christie, Frances H. 1998 Review of Eggins (1994): An Introduction to Systemic Functional Linguistics Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 21:1, pp. 139–141 | Review

Christie, Frances H. 1994 Developing an educational linguistics for English language teaching: A systemic functional linguistic perspective Functions of Language 1:1, pp. 95–127 | Article

The relevance of linguistic studies to educational practices has been an issue hotly debated for some time among specialists in English language education. Many such specialists have questioned the value of any linguistic insights, preferring to rely on various pedagogical theories, most of them… read more

Christie, Frances H. 1987 The morning news genre: Using a functional grammar to illuminate educational issues Australian Applied Language Studies, McNamara, Tim F. (ed.), pp. 182–198 | Article

This paper aims to demonstrate how Halliday’s Functional Grammar (1985) may be used to illuminate educational questions, more specifically to illuminate the study of classroom discourse. Portion of a text from the lower primary school is examined. It is in fact drawn from a Morning News learning… read more

Christie, Frances H. 1985 Some current issues in first language writing development Current Issues in First and Second Language Development: Proceedings of the ALAA Working Group on Language Development, Alice Springs, August 1984, Nicholas, Howard (ed.), pp. 27–54 | Article

Christie, Frances H. 1984 Development of writing programmes: Putting an interest in language back into schooling Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 7:1, pp. 86–102 | Article

Christie, Frances H. 1982 English as a mother tongue: Teaching Language Planning, pp. 58–66 | Article