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FOREGROUNDING

DECS Languages & Multicultural Education Portfolio Group Professional Development and Resource Materials for ESL. FOREGROUNDING . ..or what’s up front?. FOREGROUNDING 1 analysing texts for the foregrounded elements = theme . Text 1. There are four basic face shapes.

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FOREGROUNDING

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  1. DECS Languages & Multicultural Education Portfolio Group Professional Development and Resource Materials for ESL FOREGROUNDING ..or what’s up front?

  2. FOREGROUNDING 1analysing texts for the foregrounded elements = theme

  3. Text 1 There are four basic face shapes. One is long. Models tend to have this kind of face. The second is round. People with round faces can look homely. The third is square and the fourth is oval.

  4. Text 1 There are four basic face shapes. One is long. Models tend to have this kind of face. The second is round. People with round faces can look homely. The third is square and the fourth is oval.

  5. Text 1

  6. Text 2 Susan Ellis is a girl that I know. She is pretty. She has blue eyes and long hair, pretty blonde hair. Lastly she’s tall. She’s very.. impressively tall. She’s tall enough to be a champion basketball player (even though she isn’t).

  7. Text 2 Susan Ellis is a girl that I know. She is pretty. She has blue eyes and long hair, pretty blonde hair. Lastly she’s tall. She’s very.. impressively tall. She’s tall enough to be a champion basketball player (even though she isn’t).

  8. Text 2

  9. Text 3 Barney was born in 1956 in a small country town. When he was six he started school there. After seven years at that school he had to go to a boarding school in Perth.

  10. Text 3 Barney was born in 1956 in a small country town. When he was sixhe started school there. Then,after seven years at that school, he had to go to a boarding school in Perth.

  11. Text 3

  12. Text 4 I am very sorry but Barbara can not go swimming today. Last night we had a party to celebrate her birthday. Unfortunately we all drank too much and today we are all as sick as dogs.

  13. Text 4 I am very sorry but Barbara can not go swimming today. Last night we had a party to celebrate her birthday. Unfortunatelywe all drank too much and today we are all as sick as dogs.

  14. Text 4

  15. Text 5 First get the bread. Next get the butter. After that spread the butter on the bread with the knife. When you have finished, eat it.

  16. Text 5 Get the bread. Get the butter. After thatspread the butter on the bread with the knife. When you have finished,eat it.

  17. Text 5

  18. Marked and Unmarked Themes

  19. Foregrounded Elements ProcessPlace the mixture in the oven after five minutes. TimeAfter five minutes,place the mixture in the oven. Human We placed the mixture in the oven after five minutes. Non human The mixturewas placed in the oven after five minutes.

  20. FOREGROUNDING 2. The relationship between Text purpose and theme. The kinds of elements that can be foregrounded

  21. Read this text:Isabelle Allende was born in Peru of Chilean parents and now lives in California. She worked as a journalist before writing the internationally acclaimed best selling novel The House of Spirits. Since then she has published the equally highly acclaimed Eva Luna and the Infinite Plan which won the Independent Foreign Fiction Award.

  22. What is the text about?What is the purpose of the text?What information do you expect to find in such a text?

  23. The sentence and clause starters: Isabelle Allende was born in Peru of Chilean parents and now lives in California. She worked as a journalist before writing the internationally acclaimed best selling novel The House of Spirits. Since then she has published the equally highly acclaimed Eva Luna and the Infinite Plan which won the Independent Foreign Fiction Award.

  24. What do you notice about the starting points (the foregrounded elements or theme) of the clauses? What happens if the theme changes?

  25. In Peru Isabelle Allende was born of Chilean parents and in California she now lives. Before writing the internationally acclaimed best selling novel The House of Spirits, she worked as a journalist. The equally highly acclaimed Eva Luna and the Infinite Plan which won the Independent Foreign Fiction Award has been published since then. Isabelle Allende was born in Peru of Chilean parents and now lives in California. She worked as a journalist before writing the internationally acclaimed best selling novel The House of Spirits. Since then she has published the equally highly acclaimed Eva Luna and the Infinite Plan which won the Independent Foreign Fiction Award.

  26. FOREGROUNDING 2 Foregrounding and mode

  27. Mode Foregrounding is an element of Mode Mode is the ‘how’, the information about the textual element of a Text. Mode in Text in Context deals with the range of spoken, written and multimodal texts.

  28. Mode TEXT IN CONTEXT Deals with a range of texts constructed in a variety of modes – highly spoken to highly written and includes a range of technologies (telephone, e-mail, pen etc)

  29. Mode Mode continuum spoken …………………………………written shop dialogue..………………..…written discussion on shopping hours transcript of dialogue………..………… formal oral presentation

  30. Mode • We shouted like anythingwhen Nigecame on. • Nigel Smart led the Crows onto Football Park last Saturday. The crowd erupted into applause. • Last Saturday Nigel Smart led the Crows onto Football Park last Saturday andthe crowd erupted into applause. • As Nigel Smart led the Crows onto Football Park, the crowd erupted into applause. • With enormous applause ringing through the stadium, Nigel Smart led his beloved Crows into the stadium.

  31. Mode • Peopledestroy the places where the panda lives. • The destruction of the panda’s habitatis due to …..…….

  32. We shouted like anythingwhen Nigecame on. Mode continuum spoken ……………………………written Nigel Smart led the Crows onto Football Park last Saturday. The crowd erupted into applause. As Nigel Smart led the Crows onto Football Park, the crowd erupted into applause. With enormous applause ringing through the stadium, Nigel Smart led his beloved Crows into the stadium.

  33. Mode continuum spoken ……………………………written We placed the mixture in the oven after five minutes. The mixturewas placed in the oven after five minutes. Peopledestroy the places where the panda lives. The destruction of the panda’s habitatis due to …..…….

  34. Mode continuum spoken …………………………………written concrete noun……………………………abstract, nominalised noun human specific……human general……..no human agent active voice ……………………….…..passive voice action verbs…………………………. relational verb

  35. Foregrounding 3 Foregrounding at work

  36. Patterns of foregrounding easily understood texts have expected patterns of foregrounding

  37. Patterns of foregrounding thematic choice should not be unexpected - it should be connected with ideas presented in a previous theme or rheme

  38. Pattern 1: rheme of a clause is split and used as theme of clauses which follow taxonomic report

  39. Pattern 2: same theme – information is built through the rheme description

  40. Pattern 3: zig zag – (given – new) -an element in the rheme of one clause is the theme, or implied in the theme, of the next explanation

  41. Patterns of foregrounding easily understood texts have expected patterns of foregrounding

  42. Patterns of foregrounding the foregrounded element may change with each new stage of the text

  43. Foregrounding 3 What can I do with this?

  44. Foregrounding 4 Foregrounding in the ESL Scales

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