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Date Posted: 11:40:23 07/16/03 Wed
Author: grasiela izaga
Subject: task#11

TASK # 11
PROFA.: VERA MENEZES
ALUNA: GRASIELA IZAGA

Explain what a genre-based approach is.


Working with genres means to bring the society into the classroom. Human beings interact in different social contexts and they create rules to be followed in these contexts. Although these rules are not only related to the social behavior but also to linguistic choices people make when producing the language in specific contexts for specific reasons. So if we are to define genre we would say that it is a set of rules defined by the members of a determined social context to be followed as patterns when producing the language in these contexts. When the students are taught how to produce "business letters", "invitations", etc. they are working with genres. Genres are not essentially written texts. There are also innumerable genres in oral texts established by social contexts. they are related to every day interaction and situations in which people interact personally.
Students can develop the ability to transfer from one mode of language use to another in a way that reflects the language behavior and expectations of an language academic learning environment.
Genre literacy, which developed mostly in Australia during the last decade, is an attempt to create a new pedagogic space in the writing classroom, and is underpinned by the language descriptions of Functional Grammar (Halliday, 1994). In essence it involves a methodology for teaching how a text "hangs together" and creates meaning in its particular context of use. Because of its emphasis on texts, and not sentences, it moves beyond traditional literacy pedagogies that stress formal correctness. Instead, it is an approach that raises students' awareness of the linguistic features of a genre and thus allows them to develop literacy across a variety of genres they will encounter in any curriculum, or even in non-school environments.
Consequently, an integral aspect of a genre approach is working with texts from the beginning; authentic texts that represent genres that are used outside the language classroom. 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.

BIBLIOGRAPHY
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
GAZZOTTI, M.A. Genres: an alternative to ELT. New Routes. March, 1999. p.14-18(xerox copy)

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