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Date Posted: 14:42:52 07/15/03 Tue
Author: Igor AL Silva
Subject: Task 11

As far as I could noticed an as Critchley points out, the genre-based approach seems to be an approach more related to writing, even though there are some points which can be perfectly fitted to speaking. Actually, this approach, developed mostly in Australia during the last decade, is based on the fact that genres stand for social purposes and that “genres can be identified examining the structural organization of a text, as well as the linguistic features within it” (Critchley). Therefore, EFL teachers are supposed to provide learners with enough knowledge so they can write or speak the target language according to the social purpose(s) they want to convey. For this, appropriate vocabulary and grammar need to be developed, that is, learners need to know and apprehend the proper “tools” so they can produce a adequate message in the other language in terms of social purposes.

Thus, when teaching a second language, teachers should have in mind that all kind of texts (either an oral production) creates a meaning in its particular context of use and has some social implication. By knowing this, teachers are supposed to show and teach their students how to produce texts really meaningful for the social purposes they want to convey, that is, the texts produced have to fit some linguistics conventions, specially in terms of coherence, cohesion, grammar and vocabulary. Then, a good point, according to the genre-based approach, is to work with authentic texts from the very beginning,


References:

An integrated approach to language programme development http://exchanges.state.gov/forum/vols/vol33/no3/p41.htm
Adapting genre theory to EFL contexts http://www.encounters.jp/mike/professional/publications/bevseminar.html
Writing across genres http://langue.hyper.chubu.ac.jp/jalt/pub/tlt/00/jul/gallagher.html

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