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Date Posted: 16:31:19 07/18/03 Fri
Author: Renata Del Rio Meints
Subject: task 11

GENRE is a particular class of speech events (in discourse analysis) which are considered as being of the same type, having particular and distinctive characteristics. (http://www.sil.org/lingualinks/LANGUAGELEARNING/OtherResources/GlssryOfLnggLrnngTrms/WhatIsAGenre.htm) Having this in mind, one can define a genre-based approach as the idea of working with sentences in a context, without trying to make learners acquire language through isolated sentences. According to the definition of genre above, some speech events are of the same type, even though, they have particular characteristics. For instance, an example would be a sentence such as "It's raining" (cited in http://personal.cityu.edu.hk/~enhyland/lectures_1-10.htm). The same sentence can fit in several contexts and have different meanings.
e.g: Can I go out to play? It's raining.
Have you mowed the lawn yet? It's raining.

The sentence serves as justification for both requirements, however, it is not a complete sentence as it should grammatically be, and it would be discarded by other approaches and by the language teacher in a traditional approach. So, a genre-based approach would not reproach such an answer, as it is perfectly natural and valid. Departing from the point that it really exists, these speech acts have to be known by the foreign language student. I believe the genre-based approach was created in order to fulfill this gap in language teaching and learning, providing students a view of language in the real world where it is used.

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