Mental processes in teachers’ reflection papers: a transitivityanalysis in systemic functional linguistics
The tradition of reflective teaching has been around for thirty-four years since Schӧn (1983) first proposed the notion of reflective practice. Many studies heavily rely on written genres in the investigation of teachers’ reflective practices. Thematic categories were threshed out through content...
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| description | The tradition of reflective teaching has been around for thirty-four years since Schӧn (1983) first proposed the
notion of reflective practice. Many studies heavily rely on written genres in the investigation of teachers’
reflective practices. Thematic categories were threshed out through content and descriptive analyses. However,
these themes were not culled from the clauses of mental processes employed by the teachers to express their
inner world of experiences. This exploratory study proposed the transitivity model in Systemic Functional
Linguistics (SFL) to generate the mental processes from reflection papers. Initial papers with 17,937 word
tokens were produced by 28 teachers of English enrolled in a writing course. All processes were generated by
UAM Corpus Tool. The themes generated from the Phenomena felt, thought of, sensed, desired, and perceived
by the Senser were culled using content analysis. Results show that teachers are still boxed within the default
material and relational processes. Results demonstrate that they employed higher mental types of sensing such
as cognitive and desiderative. Based on the Phenomena, the top themes include: (1) commendations for the
course professor, (2) writing process, its challenges, nature, and concepts, and (3) actual classroom
experiences, learnings, and the subject. Although the results corroborate with the themes identified in previous
studies, these present themes may be treated as valid and more realistic views and dimensions of reflective
practices. This exploratory study suggests that the Phenomenon in the mental processes may be an ideal situs of
looking into teachers’ human internal affairs as reflective practitioners. |
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| spelling | oai:generic.eprints.org:112972018-01-21T15:08:02Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11297/ Mental processes in teachers’ reflection papers: a transitivityanalysis in systemic functional linguistics Munalim, Leonardo Orevillo The tradition of reflective teaching has been around for thirty-four years since Schӧn (1983) first proposed the notion of reflective practice. Many studies heavily rely on written genres in the investigation of teachers’ reflective practices. Thematic categories were threshed out through content and descriptive analyses. However, these themes were not culled from the clauses of mental processes employed by the teachers to express their inner world of experiences. This exploratory study proposed the transitivity model in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) to generate the mental processes from reflection papers. Initial papers with 17,937 word tokens were produced by 28 teachers of English enrolled in a writing course. All processes were generated by UAM Corpus Tool. The themes generated from the Phenomena felt, thought of, sensed, desired, and perceived by the Senser were culled using content analysis. Results show that teachers are still boxed within the default material and relational processes. Results demonstrate that they employed higher mental types of sensing such as cognitive and desiderative. Based on the Phenomena, the top themes include: (1) commendations for the course professor, (2) writing process, its challenges, nature, and concepts, and (3) actual classroom experiences, learnings, and the subject. Although the results corroborate with the themes identified in previous studies, these present themes may be treated as valid and more realistic views and dimensions of reflective practices. This exploratory study suggests that the Phenomenon in the mental processes may be an ideal situs of looking into teachers’ human internal affairs as reflective practitioners. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2017 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11297/1/16869-54521-1-PB.pdf Munalim, Leonardo Orevillo (2017) Mental processes in teachers’ reflection papers: a transitivityanalysis in systemic functional linguistics. 3L; Language,Linguistics and Literature,The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies., 23 (2). pp. 154-166. ISSN 0128-5157 http://ejournal.ukm.my/3l/issue/view/972 |
| spellingShingle | Munalim, Leonardo Orevillo Mental processes in teachers’ reflection papers: a transitivityanalysis in systemic functional linguistics |
| title | Mental processes in teachers’ reflection papers: a transitivityanalysis in systemic functional linguistics |
| title_full | Mental processes in teachers’ reflection papers: a transitivityanalysis in systemic functional linguistics |
| title_fullStr | Mental processes in teachers’ reflection papers: a transitivityanalysis in systemic functional linguistics |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mental processes in teachers’ reflection papers: a transitivityanalysis in systemic functional linguistics |
| title_short | Mental processes in teachers’ reflection papers: a transitivityanalysis in systemic functional linguistics |
| title_sort | mental processes in teachers’ reflection papers: a transitivityanalysis in systemic functional linguistics |
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