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Date Posted: 20:57:18 07/17/03 Thu
Author: Cássia Scheinbein
Subject: TASK 11

YOUR TASK IS:

Explain what a genre-based approach is.

It is an approach that works with texts from the beginning, which are authentic texts that represent genres that are used outside the language classroom. This approach requires that before attempting to write in a particular genre, the students have been exposed to the genre by reading, analyzing and discussing examples of it. It bases 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. The genre approach has the aim to determine what kind of texts are valued (and why?), and also to make these genres accessible to students in reading and writing. By doing this, students are able to understand the purpose of each genre and its place within a set of genres and this allows them to deal with language shifts of various kinds (a skill most native
speakers are well acquainted with.

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