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Date Posted: 17:40:10 07/17/03 Thu
Author: Rita Cristina Lopes
Subject: Task 11

Genre based approach (GA), has been tested and exercised mostly in Australia.

The GA in language learning puts its emphasis on texts, so teachers must specify/model the different kinds of genre, show their characteristics, deal with the vocabulary and grammar to expose learners to as many types of genres as possible before asking the students to produce a text in a given genre because they must be aware of the linguistic features of a genre before producing one.

Students will also be familiarized with the genres they will encounter in a variety of environments and learn how to deal with various kinds of language shifts. One of the GA stronger believers – Dr. Beverly Derewianka states that specific genres serve specific social purposes, so if the sociocultural contexts are always under changings, the genres follow or walks together with that development. That means that besides understanding the sociocultural purpose of each genre, learners will understand what language is appropriate to that purpose and how texts create meaning in its context.


Bibliography
Genre: Where art thou? Tracing the role of genre in the foreign language curriculum http://uccllt.ucdavis.edu/Events/papers/Crane,etal.Irvine2002Paper.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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