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Yeah, that article isn't a "Penn versus Halliday". It's about how, in Sydney, they put together a computer programme using Penn's 'tree' that can analyse a corpus, with a focus on SFL. Should be titled "Penn + Halliday (= computer corpus tool for SFL study)" Tough reading too. You have to be a geniu...

Here are some alternatives. Note that each of these are either always or often introduced on CELTA courses (which is not nearly as 'rigid' as some people assume - it's actually about as comprehensive and academically & professally relevant as you could possibly get in just 4 weeks). Reading/Listenin...

PPP (Presentation, Practice, and Production) Traditionally this meant the teacher chooses an item of language, usually a grammatical structure and does the following: give a presentation on the meaning, grammatical rules and pronunciation of that structure; provide controlled practice in the form o...