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Date Posted: 12:27:30 09/27/09 Sun
Author: Carolina Duarte
Subject: Carol's comments on genre text & ppt

In terms of terms :-)
“Text type” and “generic structure”, although not yet a part of my own day to day vocabulary, were already familiar. “Moves” I had never even heard of before: the structure of a text in terms of its discourse (labeled according to “authorial purpose” and conventions of a specific discourse community.) Got it!

In terms of authors:
It appears that John Swayles is our man (one of many*, but this title appealed to me): color coded texts (discourse appreciation, preparation for writing), reassembly exercises, text comparison, research cards (noting similarities and differences in rhetorical and linguistic practices of different fields of study), data commentaries (non verbal data).
*Nunan, Susan Thompson, Michael Mcarthy & Ronald Carter, John Flowerdew and Lindsay Miller, Weissberg…

Controversy:
To teach or not to teach dominant genres and their rules? The question is whether or not this will lead to “uncritical reproduction of the status quo” (Alan Luke, 1996) or if it is indeed valuable in empowering learners.

Key point & Challenge:
How to foster independence with guidance and direction.

Discourse oriented tasks:
I will not comment nor mention each example, but only note that many different interesting ways to work with texts are presented. They all involve raising awareness of different “textual aspects” (this being my own term) and may or not subsequently aim at the production of whatever genre is being focused on.

Spoken Genres
There are many activities which focus on discourse-level aspects of spoken genres in this section as well. Since they are described, few of them exemplified, some are vaguely understood (what is flowchart analyses?). Others are clearer and more familiar for they appear as proposed activities in books with which I’ve worked – cultural notes, cross-cultural awareness*, strategies to keep a conversation going, paraphrasing, gap filling structural slots, glossing stages of a text in functional terms and others.

(*which could have been further/better elaborated in the ppp slide)

The ppp
I thought your group was especially “happy”, as we say in Portuguese”, in the choice of the main points from the text to be presented. There was no formal conclusion, however – and with this last comment, I conclude my own comments on genre!!

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Re: Carol's comments on genre text & ppt -- KÁTIA, 12:30:09 09/29/09 Tue
- Re: Carol's comments on genre text & ppt -- Carol Duarte, 17:47:23 10/01/09 Thu
  - FLOWCHART -- KÁTIA, 03:48:46 10/02/09 Fri