A focus on purpose: using a genre approach in an EFL writing class  

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Myskow, Gordon ; Gordon, Kana

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: ELT Journal = English Language Teaching Journal (Full Text) vol. 64 no. 3 (Jul. 2010), page 283-292 .
Topik: genre approach; EFL; writing
Fulltext: 2010.3.283.full.pdf (177.73KB)

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This article shows how a genre approach has been used in an EFL high school writing course to teach the university application letter genre to students preparing for post-secondary studies. The authors discuss speci?c classroom materials to illustrate how a genre-based approach can be employed, not simply to teach static textual patterns but to help learners gain a richer understanding of the complex relationship between written texts and the social contexts in which they are situated. The article begins with a brief overview of L2 writing scholarship, and as the authors acknowledge, some overlap exists between contemporary genre-based pedagogies and earlier product approaches. The authors argue, however, that awareness of the (somewhat slippery) distinction between these approaches is essential, if teachers are to present genres as resources to be drawn on to help learners achieve speci?c social purposes rather than in?exible text templates to be prescriptively imitated.

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