Abstract

This paper, based on the theory of theme and rheme of systemic functional grammar is a tentative study on the practice of thematic progression in teaching English speaking in EFL (English as a foreign language) classrooms. Four pattens of thematical progression proposed by Xu Shenghuan, namely, the Pattern of Parallel Progression (PPP), the Pattern of Continuous Progression (PCP1), the Pattern of Centralized Progression (PCP2), and the Pattern of Intersectional Progression (PIP) are used to exemplify how to use thematic progression to help learners generate and deliver oral text coherently and fluently

Keywords

thematic progression; patterns; teaching English Speaking EFL

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