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to boldly proceed ...memorisation, predicting, building personalised resources of vocabulary and grammar, prelisteningand post-listening strategies, pre-reading strategies etc. As with the interculturalcompetence training, the strategies are integrated into the Tactical Interaction course. Theyare overtly identified and practised so that once soldiers have graduated, they have apersonalised set of resources and strategies to assist them in the continuing, in situmaintenance and development of their additional language.6 ConclusionThis paper has described two aspects of the redesign of curricula at the Defence Force Schoolof Languages. In the first instance, it has described how the principles of systemic functionallinguistics have underpinned the design process, offering one example of the application ofthe theory in a language for specific purpose context. This underpinning has been brought tobear on the students’ learning through the text-based approach to learning/teaching materialswithin the framework of the learning/teaching cycle. Both the materials and the cycle realisethe principles of SFL: namely, the principle of language as a form of social behaviour, theprinciple of language use in context, jointly negotiated by interactants, through goal-oriented,coherent, whole texts.Secondly the paper described two equally important, complementary components of theredesign, the inclusion of interculturality and language learning strategies. These inclusionsare to meet the expectations of both Defence leadership and the deploying soldier as theycollectively grapple with the challenges of working collaboratively with the armed forces andcivilians from other cultures in languages other than English.ReferencesHead Modernisation and Strategic Planning – Army. (2009). Army’s Future Land Operating Concept (ACFLOC), Canberra: Army Headquarters.Hurley, D. (2011). Looking back and pushing forward. In Defence Magazine Issue 6 2011 (p. 5), Canberra.Department of Defence. (2009). Defending Australian in the Asia Pacific Century: Force 2030, Defence WhitePaper 2009, Canberra: Commonwealth of Australia.Halliday, M. A. K. (2004). An Introduction to Functional Grammar (2 nd ed.). London: Edward Arnold.Halliday, M. A. K. (2002). Language structure and language functions (1970). In J. Webster (Ed.), On Grammar(2 nd ed.). London: Continuum.de Silva Joyce, H. and S. Feez. 2012. Text-based language and literacy education – Programming andmethodology. Sydney: Phoenix EducationJohn, A.M. (2003). Genre and ESL/EFL composition instruction. In B. Kroll (Ed.), Exploring the Dynamics ofSecond Language Writing (pp. 195-217), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Ramzan, Y. (2009). The construction of interculturality in the context of foreign language education: a casestudy of Japanese language learning in Australian primary schools. PhD dissertation, Faculty of Education,University of Wollongong.Kalantzis, M and B. Cope (1997). Managing Cultural Diversity. Haymarket: Centre for WorkplaceCommunication and Culture.92