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Date Posted: 10:44:57 07/16/03 Wed
Author: Juliana Coelho
Subject: Task 11

Explain what a genre-based approach is.

Genres are abstract, socially recognised ways of using language. They provide us with resources which help us deal with things in all areas of life. Everybody has a repertoire of appropriate responses we can use in different kinds of everyday situations (shopping lists, messages, job applications, formal requests).
The genre-based approaches are usually related to writing, but as I understand it they can be related to textual production be it written or oral. These approaches has been recently developed, mostly in Australia as I could notice from the websites I visited.
When writing or speaking we follow certain rules and conventions for organising our message because we want our reader to recognise and understand our social purposes. As I could understand, the genre-based approaches are focused on this part of the language development: how to write in order to make my reader understand “exactly” what and how I want to express my message, learning how and when to use those responses appropriately.
In all languages people organise texts (written and oral) according to what is appropriate for their society. That is a reason why the cultural specificities of genre may be difficult to learn.
There are three broad approaches related to genre, each one defining it differently.
The Systemic Functional view defines genres as staged, goal oriented social processes, involving the interaction of participants using language in conventional, step-wise structures.
The ESP perspective in which genres comprise classes of communicative events linked by shared purposes recognized by the members of a particular community. These purposes are the rationale of the genre and help to shape the ways it is structured and the choices of content and style it makes available.
The New Rhetoric view gives less emphasis to the form of discourse and more to the action it is used to accomplish, seeking to establish the connections between genre and repeated situations and to identify the way in which genres are seen as recurrent rhetorical actions.

http://www.sil.org/lingualinks/LANGUAGELEARNING/OtherResources/GlssryOfLnggLrnngTrms/WhatIsAGenre.htm
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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