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Date Posted: 19:49:42 09/27/09 Sun
Author: Helen, Vagno, Luciana, Milene
Subject: Re: Comments on Genre in DA ppt
In reply to: Gustavo R. Boechat 's message, "Re: Comments on Genre in DA ppt" on 15:58:16 09/27/09 Sun

Yes, Gustavo. We agree that teaching genres in a deductive way (in which students are asked to find the examples of sample language of a determined genre by themselves rather than being given them by the teacher) is more productive. Students can then be more autonomous, because they themselves are responsible for discovering characterestics of specif genres.

Your activity with recipes is very interesting and by doing it the way you described, you make your class more student-centered and you may have your pupils engaged in a very motivating task!

>Dear fellows,
>
>What I suppose to talk about genre resumes in
>expressing the importance in presenting its
>characteristics in a already constructed material than
>in talking about its characteristics. What I mean is
>we need to give to students the real product instead
>of writing on the whiteboard and talk its own
>characteristic. As an example, I prefer giving to
>students a piece of paper in which contains some
>recipes and the own students express about how recipes
>are structured. What I suggest in students formulate
>by they own the characteristics. They are able to
>discover, for instance, that in recipes, the verbs are
>normally in imperative form.
>After that, teachers should invite students to create
>a new recipe about how to make a dish or something
>like that.
>
>Once again, I would like to cite about the importance
>in working with genre in a contextualized way.
>Students will be much more motivate in doing this!
>What do you think?
>Let me know...
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Gustavo

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