Critical Meaning Making through SFL-Informed TBLT Instructions: A Design-Based Research

Design-based research (DBR)’s use in education research is flourishing since it enables teachers and researchers to collaboratively work to improve, implement, and provide a constructive learning environment. Plethora of studies utilize the methodology to design and develop macro pedagogic documents, professional development programs, and refine the theoretical understanding in real classroom practices. However, its use for developing a set of instructional designs that promote critical meaning-making in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) courses is relatively scarce. The iterative cycle of DBR affords us to co-create the instructional design that utilizes some systemic functional linguistic (SFL) concepts to task-based language teaching (TBLT) in supporting students’ critical meaning-making through reading and summarizing texts in English.