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Date Posted: 20:08:18 07/15/03 Tue
Author: Ozana Antunes
Subject: task 11

Task 11 - Genre-based approach

Explain what a genre-based approach is.

It is an approach that raises students' awareness of the linguistic features of a genre and thus allows them to develop literacy across a variety of genres they will encounter in any curriculum, or even in non-school environments. An integral aspect of a genre approach is working with texts from the beginning; authentic texts that represent genres that are used outside the language classroom. A genre approach requires that before attempting to write in a particular genre, the students have been exposed to the genre by reading, analyzing and discussing examples of it. The interconnection between reading and writing is stressed in most language programs, though often the genre of the reading is different to that which the students are required to write. A genre approach is not a matter of applying formulaic prescriptions of how a text should be structured. Instead, it is based on an analysis of how a text creates meaning in its context of use and then how this knowledge can be utilized by students to write in the same genre themselves. An essential aim of the genre approach is to determine what kind of texts are valued (and why?), and also to make these genres accessible to students in both reading and writing. By doing this, students are able to understand the purpose of each genre and its place within a set of genres and this allows students to deal with language shifts of various kinds, a skill most native speakers are well acquainted with.







References:
http://personal.cityu.edu.hk/~enhyland/lectures_1-10.htm )
http://uccllt.ucdavis.edu/Events/papers/Crane,etal.Irvine2002Paper.htm
http://www.encounters.jp/mike/professional/publications/bevseminar.html
http://langue.hyper.chubu.ac.jp/jalt/pub/tlt/00/jul/gallagher.html

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