Persuasive Writing for EAL Learners: A Functional Grammar Approach
Persuasive Writing for EAL Learners: A Functional Grammar Approach
6 November 2025, 5:30pm – 6:30pm, AEDT, Online
Summary
This presentation explores everyday classroom practice that scaffolds primary learners’ writing. The presentation was drawn from the teaching and learning cycle and functional grammar where language is matched to purpose to develop foundations of persuasive language. Using modelling and understanding of text from within their context, this practical approach examples ways to scaffold language learning for specific purposes. The everyday classroom practices are situated within major language learning models and support the explicit teaching of text and grammar.
Rebekah Piper Jones is an experienced EAL educator and the Primary Curriculum Coordinator at Blackburn English Language School. She holds a Bachelor of Education (Primary) from the University of New England and a Master’s in TESL/TEFL from the University of Birmingham.
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