Genre and ESL/EFL composition instruction

Genre and ESL/EFL composition instruction

1. approaches of genre studies

   • 1. as text
     • most popular; easier tangible product
     • pedagogical: students analyze text features
   • 2. as process
     • many processes
     • varied; experience, context, writers' roles
   • 3. as social practice
     • The New Rhetoric School
     • North America
     • contextual elements in the work place

2. approaches to the teaching of composition

   • 1. The Sydney School
     • elemental
     • content areas
     • SFL
     • younger students
     • focus on product
   • 2. ESP
     • EAP; braoder than ESP
       • 1. conventions of structure
       • 2. conventions of reference
       • 3. conventions of language
       • features of academic texts
         • 1. explicit
         • 2. objective
         • 3. ARG in intro
         • 4. hedges
         • 5. attribution
     • needs assessment
     • situational analysis
     • discourse analysis
     • Swale; moves = genre analysis
   • 3. The New Rhetoric
     • rhetorician and composition theorists
     • ✖ background in linguistics or SLA
     • genres= dynamic, manipulated, conditions of use
     • for L1 instruction
     • limited = explicit instruction + set of rules