Teaching Genre in a Foreign Language Context
Avoiding Overgeneralizations
- Always state the data from which results are obtained
- Show exceptions to estandardf texts
- Teach learners how to analyze texts so they can perform a genre analysis of texts after the course has finished
Overcoming Evolution Problems
- Update knowledge about the target text types
- Using the latest published literature
- Using updated corpus data
- Easy for Frequency counts, Tense analysis, etc.
- Structural analysis is much more time-consuming
- I am currently developing software tools to, automatically classify text types automatically perform structural analysis