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Promoting Genre Awareness in the EFL Classroom (Discourse communities…
Promoting Genre Awareness
in the EFL Classroom
Genre
Genre-writing course opposed to
Product and process writing
Socio-cognitive schemas
Collective of idiolects
Group of texts that share a purpose
They include a series of steps in their structure
Lexico-grammatical choices such as nominalization
Discourse communities
Repertoire of genres
Conventions and culture
Different fields=different discourse
Different context=different discourse
Genre pedagogy
Some say genres cannot be taught
Some ESP practiotioners and Sydney schools say NNSs need genre-instruction
Genre patterns, features and variations
EFL teachers
Challenges
What genres to teach?
Limited access to authentic resources
Propositions
Set of standard genres
Narrative, recount, argument, report, and description
Work in communities
Use internet
Inclusion of genre awareness
Analysis of language in context
Context-related activities
Text
Audience
Purpose
Discourse-related activities
Different moves/steps to achieve communicative purposes
Problem/solution
Situation
Problem
Response
Evaluation of response
Scrambled text from the same genre
Language-related activities
Lexico-grammatical structures and patterns
Spoken
Written
Genre and the Language Learning Classroom (Paltridge 2001) and Second Language Writing (Hyland 2003) for further suggestions
