Application of Systemic Functional Linguistics in Content Areas Teaching: With an Illustration of Fang's Recent Researches

Research around content areas teaching has been a hot topic around the world for the past two decades. However, problems still exist in the real classroom teaching. The present article introduces the background and features of research based on Functional Linguistics. With an illustration of the two recent studies carried out by Fang Zhihui, the article aims to show the advantages of Functional Linguistics in the research of content areas teaching and the effectiveness of the application in the classrooms.