COMMUNICATIVE APPROACH

ELEVENTH CLASS          July 14^th to 18^th  

Genre-based approach

A genre is a particular class of speech events (in discourse analysis) which are considered as being of the same type, having particular and distinctive characteristics.

http://www.sil.org/lingualinks/LANGUAGELEARNING/OtherResources/GlssryOfLnggLrnngTrms/WhatIsAGenre.htm

MAIN CONCEPTS: go on building your own glossary with the key concepts you find in the bibliography. See assessment for more information.

YOUR TASK IS:  

Explain what a genre-based approach is. 

In order to do your task you can use the following texts:

You are not supposed to read all of them as far as you have enough support to do your task. 

GAZZOTTI, M.A. Genres: an alternative to ELT. New Routes. March, 1999. p.14-18(xerox copy)

GAZZOTTI, M.A. Genres in the didatic material for EFL. New Routes. March, 1999. p. 18-19 (xerox copy)

Genre-based approaches (In:http://personal.cityu.edu.hk/~enhyland/lectures_1-10.htm )

Genre: Where art thou? Tracing the role of genre in the foreign language curriculum http://uccllt.ucdavis.edu/Events/papers/Crane,etal.Irvine2002Paper.htm

Adapting genre theory to EFL contexts http://www.encounters.jp/mike/professional/publications/bevseminar.html 

Writing across genres http://langue.hyper.chubu.ac.jp/jalt/pub/tlt/00/jul/gallagher.html 

LET 076 C - UFMGCOM1: Go to  http://www.voy.com/143502/ to publish your contribution.

LET 175 C - COMUFMG:  Go to   http://www.voy.com/143557/ to publish your contribution.

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