It can be observed that systemic linguistics has been engaged with languages other than English since the late 1960's.
We believe, contrary to these received views, that the key differences are to be found in the different ways the audience can engage with language.
Grammaring tasks can be good choices for a FonF syllabus because, in addition to Larsen-Freeman conceptualization of teaching grammar, they are in line with Swain's output hypothesis (1985); they are production-oriented tasks which present grammar to learners as a skill or process to engage with language.
Bringing to bear that language does not only mirror reality, but is also a constitutive cultural-tool, the study aims to highlight the contrastive ways in which the dominating political parties and citizens engage with languaging (i.e. the deployment of semiotic resources across language-varieties, modalities, including imagery).
Another tool — the Top 10 Junk News Aggregator — shows the most engaged with English language junk news stories posted to Facebook in the last 24 hours, in the context of the 2018 US midterm elections.
At the same time, having engaged with the language of "risk", most women emphasized that they wanted access to birth technologies when needed, particularly epidurals and emergency C-sections, with the presence of family, as close to home as possible and within their traditional territories.
Especially speaking skills might suffer because foreign language instruction in an academic setting often does not present students with sufficient opportunities to productively engage with the language (Gilmore 2007).
You're engaging with another language, not just parroting it.
He continued, "When one engages with the language, it has its own system of logic".
