For SFL, in particular with its origins in Firthian linguistics, there had been a long tradition of orientation to this method (Firth, [1957]; [1968]; Halliday, [1961]; Butt, [2001]; Matthiessen, [2007]; [2009]; [in press]).
Where should sources of normative traditions and orientations be originated which are able to serve as a means for a basic re-orientation?
The approach to the investigation of the review was derived from the work of Mays, Pope and Popay [ 6] in describing frameworks for the review and synthesis of health services evidence which have to deal with different study designs, research traditions, theoretical orientations, and disciplines.
Overall, different traditions concerning the orientation of educational systems across linguistic regions in Switzerland exist (Seibert et al. [2009]; Meyer [2009]).
As mentioned earlier, preschool attendance is almost universal for young children in Hong Kong and there is a tradition of academic-orientation in Hong Kong's kindergartens despite the fact that government has exerted much effort to promote child-centered, less didactic early childhood education.
Last fall, as a new student at Columbia University, I endured the hallowed tradition of new student orientation, picking classes, and trying to fit in.
A society that embraces democratic pluralism recognizes that some of its citizens will identify as members of groups based on shared heritage, cultural traditions, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, etc., and that these affinities may even cross the borders of countries.
At eleven, it was time for the "new guy" orientation, an office tradition.
Continuity, tradition and a sense of orientation, however vague, towards matters of ultimate significance are clearly not "irrelevant" to many people in Britain today.
Ben-Gurion said about these oriental, Sephardic Jews that they were 'from a Jewish point of view, dust of man, without language, without tradition, without roots, without an orientation to the life of statehood, without the customs of an independent society.'".
