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Date Posted: 11:02:39 07/16/03 Wed
Author: Maria Juliana de Souza
Subject: Task #11

11th TASK:
Explain what a genre-based approach is.

According to Holmes, J. in Gazzotti, M.A. (1999) working with genres meant “bringing society into the classroom”. Bakhtin, M. (1979) says that as human beings interact in different social contexts, they create rules to be followed within these contexts. These rules are not owned related to the social behavior but also to the linguistic choices people make when producing the language in specific contexts for specific reasons.
A genre-based approach means that the teacher will be using for the classes “real” material like advertisements, letters or invitations. Genres are in “real” and common life and that’s what teachers are supposed to use to teach when using genre-approach. In Gazzoti, M.A. (1999) we have the opinion that we can have either written or oral texts constituting the genres, because there are innumerable social activities in which human beings get involved in, there are also innumerable genres, established by these social contexts.
Genres may be separated into groups such as: reporting experiences and facts (news, diaries, biographies, etc.) fairy tales, nursery rhymes, novels, science fiction among many others.
Genre based teaching should depend not only on the genre we would like to teach, but also on the skills we are aiming at teaching. It may constitute a whole course or not, depending on the genre you are working with.




Reference:
GAZZOTTI, M.A. Genres: an alternative to ELT. New Routes. March, 1999. p.14-18(xerox copy)
GAZZOTTI, M.A. Genres in the didatic material for EFL. New Routes. March, 1999. p. 18-19 (xerox copy)
Genre-based approaches (In:http://personal.cityu.edu.hk/~enhyland/lectures_1-10.htm )
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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