Problems with Teaching Genre
Teacher Inexperience
- Most teachers are not from the target field/discipline of the learners
- Many teachers are unaware of the characteristic features of the target genre/text type
- (Johns and Dudley-Evans, 1991; Bhatia, 1993; Currie, 1994; Freedman, 1994)
- This can lead to descriptions of writing that are inaccurate!
- This can lead to descriptions that are overgeneralizations!
- This can lead to the hindering of writing acquisition