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Objectives
The main objectives of the Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association are to:
- promote scholarship and research in SFL
- disseminate the results of research in SF linguistic theory
- organise national conferences around SF linguistic theory and related fields
- support appropriate SFL teaching activities
- maintain the relationship with the International SFLA
Click here to read the ASFLA Constitution.
ASFLA Annual Conference 2011
Reminder! Early bird registration for the national conference of the Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association (ASFLA) ends this Friday, July 1st!
The deadline for the early bird registration for the upcoming ASFLA conference is fast approaching. The local organising committee invites you to join them at the University of New England in Armidale, heart of the beautiful New England region of New South Wales, to take part in the national conference of the Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association (ASFLA). The conference is also supported by the Australian Literacy Educators’ Association (ALEA) – Northern NSW.
This year’s ASFLA conference, themed “Language, knowledge & justice: new contexts, new questions”, will include a pre-conference Institute Day, plenary sessions, workshops and open dialogue forums. The event will be held 20-23 September.
If you have not already done so, please take advantage of the savings offered to those who register early. More information can be found here.
See the Conferences page for details.
ASFLA 2009 Online Proceedings*
Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) has exercised a significant influence on school English syllabuses throughout various states in Australia over the last twenty years. The influence of the “Sydney School” has been great. A good many teachers have appreciated the power of insights derived from SFL in connection with their work in classrooms. For this reason we were pleased to have the opportunity to host the ASFLA annual conference, Practising Theory: Expanding understandings of Language, Literature and Literacy, at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane in collaboration with the Australian Literacy Educators’ Association (ALEA) Queensland branch and the English Teachers Association of Queensland (ETAQ). The conference took place from Wednesday 30 September, 2009, until Friday 2 October, 2009, and targeted teachers, teacher educators and associated professionals. Selected papers from ASFLA 2009 will appear in a future edition of “Australian Journal of Language and Literacy” (AJLL), the flagship journal of the Australian Literacy Educators’ Association (ALEA). The papers contained here are fully refereed research articles that make a significant contribution to knowledge about language.
ASFLA 2009 Conference Program (PDF)
~ Proceedings Editor: Dr Beryl Exley
ASFLA 2007 Online Proceedings*
If Systemic Functional Linguistics is an ‘appliable’ linguistics, it should be sufficiently portable to be deployed in all cultural and disciplinary contexts. In addition, it should be sufficiently elegant so as to be involved in the practical activity of expanding discourses, by bringing to consciousness discursive practices that might otherwise remain below-view. These factors were clearly displayed in the range of papers presented at ASFLA 2007. Bridging discourses was the theme of this Congress of the Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association held at the University of Wollongong 29th June – 1st July 2007. The papers contained in the proceedings herein are examples of work that enacts two important senses of the process of bridging: bridging as sustaining complex argumentation and bridging as giving us entry into different discursive communities.
~ Michele Zappavigna & Carmel Cloran (Editors)
* You can access the ASFLA 2009 & 2007 Proceedings by following the links on the left.