Teaching Genre in a Foreign Language Context
Producing Accurate Descriptions of Writing
- Analyze MANY target texts
- Reviewing the literature on writing
- Conducting large scale corpus based studies
- Get help from Specialist Informants (field specialists)
- To supply suitable texts for analysis and classroom materials (Currie, 1994)
- To validate the results of corpus based studies (Bhatia, 1993)
- To determine important vocabulary (van Naerssen, 2000)
- To assist in teaching (Johns & Dudley-Evans, 1991)
- Get help from learners
- If the learners have experience of the target field/discipline, they can offer useful information about the reasons behind text features (using L1 in the classroom?)