Genre in Three Traditions

Implications for ESL

Datos Bibliográficos

ID10816888
AutoresSunny Hyon (California State University, San Bernardino, autor de correspondencia)
Año1996
Volumen30
Número4
Páginas693
Fecha de publicación1996-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaTESOL Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0039-8322 • E-ISSN: 1545-7249
EditorialJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/3587930
OpenAlexW2035572922
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas112
Referencias citadas11

Within the last two decades, a number of researchers have been interested in genre as a tool for developing L1 and L2 instruction. Both genre and genre-based pedagogy, however, have been conceived of in distinct ways by researchers in different scholarly traditions and in different parts of the world, making the genre literature a complicated body of scholarship to understand. The purpose of this article is to provide a map of current genre theories and teaching applications in three research areas where genre scholarship has taken significantly different paths: (a) English for specific purposes (ESP), (b) North American New Rhetoric studies, and (c) Australian systemic functional linguistics. The article compares definitions and analyses of genres within these three traditions and examines their contexts, goals, and instructional frameworks for genre-based pedagogy. The investigation reveals that ESP and Australian genre research provides ESL instructors with insights into the linguistic features of written texts as well as useful guidelines for presenting these features in classrooms. New Rhetoric scholarship, on the other hand, offers language teachers fuller perspectives on the institutional contexts around academic and professional genres and the functions genres serve within these settings

Linguistics · Sociology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Philosophy · Psychology · Second Language Acquisition and Learning