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In terms of I systemic i , the departure point "in context" leads to SFL's understanding of language as "meaning potential", which in turn implies the most distinctive feature of SFL descriptions - system network. Historically, SFL is genetically linked to corpus research for SFL views each linguistic unit in text as a product of text production, which naturally promotes corpus-based analysis, and the speech variation associated with the contextual and lexicogrammatical patterns is central to corpus linguistics. Chapter 34 by Kerstin Kunz and Elke Teich explains the reasons why SFL is such a suitable theory for translation studies and elaborates on the application of certain aspects of SFL theory to translation studies. McCabe supports SFL pedagogy grammar as an effective way for L2 teaching by arguing that the complexities of language are captured by SFL's complex description, which increases L2 students' repertoire of meaning potential and hence develops their meaning-making capabilities. [Extracted from the article]