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Date Posted: 14:35:11 07/14/03 Mon
Author: Alessandra Rosario
Subject: Task 11

Although a genre-based approach to learning has become standard practice in ESL as well as public school contexts in Australia, it is virtually unheard of here in Japan. The genre-based approach concentrates on the communicative purpose of the text, its structure and the type of language that is suitable for that purpose.

The genre-based approach can embrace the development of a text and the writer's ideas in stages without relinquishing its emphasis on the appropriateness of language used in the final draft. The genre analyzed in this study is that of letters to the editor`. The analysis aims to demonstrate the nature and extent of the genre's discourse community, the relationship and purpose(s) of the communicators involved, the organizational structure of the letters, and the functions accorded particular tenses and verb forms in this genre. The analysis thereby reveals the aspects of the genre that the syllabus should concentrate on.

There are several examples of how teachers can demonstrate generic structure concretely through the use of box diagrams, representing the major parts of a text in schematic form. Although sometimes criticized as prescriptive and restrictive as to what students produce, box diagrams provide a useful means of modeling appropriate text structure as well as providing a guide for students when they attempt to analyze and produce similar texts independently.

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