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Date Posted: 19:05:23 07/18/03 Fri
Author: Antônio Estêvão
Subject: Task 11

Task 11 – Explain what a Genre-based approach is.

Genre-based approach seems to be a way for teaching language by using texts. Text is a whole unit and texts have classes which bring together some texts according to some characteristics they have, like structural organisation and linguistic features. The target language for being taught may be a foreign language or the mother tongue, but the bibliography I have read talks more about mother tongue than foreign language. The approach we worked with right before, called lexical approach, focus on lexical phrases as a whole. This genre-based approach sees a complete text as whole. Moreover, it goes beyond the text. It focus on the genre the text belongs to.

The teaching is basically on writing and learners are exposed to reading first and writing after. That is, before being asked to produce texts using some genre features, learners must read, analyse and discuss several texts classified in the same genre. Then the learners may be able to understand the characteristics of that specific genre. As Chris Gallagher wrote: “... 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”.


Bibliographical References

GAZZOTTI, M.A. Genres: an alternative to ELT. New Routes. March, 1999. p.14-18

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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