A Study of Students’ Perceptions and Attitudes towards Genre-based ESP Writing Instruction  

Oleh:

Yang, Wen-hsien

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The Asian ESP Journal vol. 8 no. 3 (2012), page 50-73.
Topik: English for specific purposes (ESP); genre analysis; genre-based approaches (GBAs); genre-based writing instructions (GBWI); students’ perceptions and attitudes.
Fulltext: 50-73.pdf (182.34KB)

Isi artikel

The effectiveness of genre-based approaches (GBAs) to teaching ESP writing has been widely acknowledged in a large number of experimental and theoretical studies; however, any detailed examination of learners’ perceptions of and attitudes towards genre-based learning is still limited. This study investigates twenty-four polytechnic students’ reflections and opinions of an 18-week genre-based ESP writing course in Taiwan, by means of an online questionnaire. The results show that whilst learners generally corroborate the claimed strengths of GBAs, they have divided opinions of its drawbacks. Furthermore, the findings also highlight the importance of providing model exemplars, and analysing a genre from linguistic and contextual perspectives. They also illustrate the fact that GBAs help learners’ confidence in composing text. Nevertheless, their perceptions of any autonomous learning and the different assessments related to the instruction are ambivalent. Pedagogical implications and suggestions for further research are provided at the end of this paper.

Opini Anda

Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini!

Kembali