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Date Posted: 12:34:43 07/17/03 Thu
Author: ADAO FERNANDEZ
Subject: TASK 11

According to the dictionary,genre is:

n 1: a kind of literary or artistic work 2: a style of expressing yourself in writing [syn: writing style, literary genre] 3: a class of artistic endeavor having a characteristic form or technique(Source: WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University)

The GENRE BASED APPROACH is characterized by to be abstract and socially recognized ways of using the language. It is based in the understanding of the primacy of the social and the role of contexts

Genre based approach aim's are:
1. improving students communicative competence by proving them contact with different linguistic communities. Since that genres stand for social purpose in order to teach students how to identify and write texts that follow specific structures and rules and to provide the students the ability to applay different texts according to the context.
Students come to classes with genre theories, but the genre theories are too simple to match the realities of academic texts. Furthermore, genres are constantly undergoing changes. This approach like other approaches seeks to avoid simple cookie cutter approaches to teaching reading and writing.

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