Evaluating Genre-based Teaching Approach in ESL Writing Class with De Beaugrande and Dressler’s Theories on Text Linguistics

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10.2991/iccese-18.2018.88How to use a DOI?

Keywords

genre-based approach; ESL writing; de Beaugrande; Dressle; text linguistics

Abstract

Recent years have seen increased emphasis being placed on the notion of genre in the language-learning classroom. However, based on evaluating genre-based teaching approach in ESL writing class with theories on text linguistics proposed by de Beaugrande and Dressler, some suggestions are proposed. Namely, we should not totally deny the merits that genre-based approach deserves; meanwhile, it is also unwise to take genre analysis as the central activity in ESL writing class. By studying the nature of writing from a cognitive point of view, a compromise has been recommended: to apply the combination of the principles of both process and product methodology and tasked-based approach to ESL writing class. But one principle goes always underneath the combination that we should not give learners fish to eat, but to teach them how to fish.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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