Post by Admin on Sept 23, 2019 23:42:23 GMT
Why do we study Genre Analysis in TESOL?
Studying genre, even at a basic early stage, using groups to construct texts together, with teacher support, allows for that slow and steady development, something known as scaffolding, which allows for confidence to be built up.
Genre Analysis allows students to work in small groups to better develop their understanding of texts. Some students have more skill in specific areas compared to others, and so can learn from each other and transfer the skills they learn from others to their own learning.
How can students gain confidence from working in groups?
Starting to work in groups is helpful as it allows for confidence building. As stated before, we tend to learn from others (in my opinion more than we learn from textbooks), and we can build our confidence up when negotiating what we are observing in a group setting.
Why do you think students will be able to write their own genre based texts on their own after training in groups?
Students will end up writing their own texts in the future. This is a part of the process to become quality essay writers. One of our learning processes is how to plan and execute our writing in a fashion that will be understood and accepted by traditional conventions on writing (and speech).
What is an important element of genre study?
(For students to answer: Think about field, the subject means we will learn other things like vocabulary, how that vocabulary is used through structure and features, but most importantly, we learn about the subject)
What does knowledge of field do? We keep to topics that are central to the genre. For example, think about this:
(For students to answer)
What is the advantage of writing whole texts?
(For students to answer: When we are exploring a particular genre, we are using whole texts. This does not necessarily mean a whole book, but usually 100-300 words. We see the patterns and conventions associated with that genre over and over again. What do we gain from learning in this way? We see the grammar; We see the language structure; We see the language features; We see these over and over again, basically put patterns, which help us develop our own skills in writing as we learn the rules associated with that genre.)
Now complete the exercise here: bit.ly/2UGXkMY
Studying genre, even at a basic early stage, using groups to construct texts together, with teacher support, allows for that slow and steady development, something known as scaffolding, which allows for confidence to be built up.
Genre Analysis allows students to work in small groups to better develop their understanding of texts. Some students have more skill in specific areas compared to others, and so can learn from each other and transfer the skills they learn from others to their own learning.
How can students gain confidence from working in groups?
Starting to work in groups is helpful as it allows for confidence building. As stated before, we tend to learn from others (in my opinion more than we learn from textbooks), and we can build our confidence up when negotiating what we are observing in a group setting.
Why do you think students will be able to write their own genre based texts on their own after training in groups?
Students will end up writing their own texts in the future. This is a part of the process to become quality essay writers. One of our learning processes is how to plan and execute our writing in a fashion that will be understood and accepted by traditional conventions on writing (and speech).
What is an important element of genre study?
(For students to answer: Think about field, the subject means we will learn other things like vocabulary, how that vocabulary is used through structure and features, but most importantly, we learn about the subject)
What does knowledge of field do? We keep to topics that are central to the genre. For example, think about this:
(For students to answer)
What is the advantage of writing whole texts?
(For students to answer: When we are exploring a particular genre, we are using whole texts. This does not necessarily mean a whole book, but usually 100-300 words. We see the patterns and conventions associated with that genre over and over again. What do we gain from learning in this way? We see the grammar; We see the language structure; We see the language features; We see these over and over again, basically put patterns, which help us develop our own skills in writing as we learn the rules associated with that genre.)
Now complete the exercise here: bit.ly/2UGXkMY