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Academic writing is an essential subject taken by the students in the university level in order to be able to publish a scientific article in the future . It brings not only the ability to write ideas and structure the grammar traditionally but it also deals with the context of culture and situation that can create meanings beyond sentences as a system. However, students generally leave them out and focus only what they read as the literature review and report what they do as the result of analysis. By knowing systemic functional linguistics (SFL), the students would know that creating a certain discourse, in the case of academic writing, they would consider the social purpose, generic structure, and language features accompanying the text itself. This study reflects on a case study in the academic writing class that is supported by the SFL approach in teaching and learning process. It is expected to reveal the students- understanding toward the academic writing practice. Thus, the language produced can accompany the context of academic writing appropriately.