INCORPORATING GENRE ANALYSIS IN TEACHING WRITING
Keywords:
genre, genre-analysis, teaching writing
Abstract
Regarding the improvement in previous studies of implementing genre approach in English classes, this study was aimed at incorporating genre analysis in teaching writing. Genre analysis is a systematic analysis used to present patterns of language to students so that they can get sufficient understanding of the given genre. A particular genre is specified by moves describing how a text stretches to achieve its communicative purposes. By understanding the moves, students are expected to produce English written text. Through a classroom research, this study reported (1) how to incorporate the genre analysis to teaching writing of the job application letter, and (2) what students’ response to incorporating the genre analysis in the teaching of writing job application letter in English. Data were collected through students interviews, classroom observation, and reflective journals.
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Badger, Richard dan Goodith White. “A Process Genre Approach to Teaching Writing” dalam ELT Journal Volume 54/2 April 2000. UK: Oxford University Press, 2000
Cai, Jing (Luna). (2016). An Exploratory Study On An Integrated Genre-Based Approach For The Instruction Of Academic Lexical Phrases. Journal of English for Academic Purposes 24, 58-74. Available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jeap.2016.09.002
Chen, Yuan-Shan and Shao-Wen Su. (2012). A Genre-Based Approach To Teaching EFL Summary Writing. ELT Journal Volume 66/2 April. Available at doi:10.1093/elt/ccr061
Feez, Susan dan Helen Joyce. (1998). Text-Based Syllabus Design. New South Wales: National Center for English Language Teaching and Research Macquarie University
Firkins, Arthur, Gail Forey, and Sima Sengupta. (2007), Teaching Writing To Low Proficiency EFL Students, ELT Journal Volume 61/4 October. Available at: doi:10.1093/elt/ccm052
Flowerdew, John. (2015), John Swales's approach to pedagogy in Genre Analysis: A perspective from 25 years on, Journal of English for Academic Purposes xxx 1e11
Han, Jiwon., & Phil Hiver. (2018). Genre-based L2 Writing Instruction and Writing-Specific Psychological Factors: The Dynamics of Change, Journal of Second Language Writing 40 44–59. Available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jslw.2018.03.001
Harmer, Jeremy. (2007). The Practice of English Language Teaching. Pearson Longman ELT.
Hyland, Ken. (2002).”Genre: Language, Context, and Literacy” in Discourse and Dialogue: Annual Review of Applied Linguistics Vol.22. USA: Cambridge University Press
Kern, Richard. (2000). Literacy and Language Teaching. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press
Kim, Miyoun. (2007). Genre-Based Approach to Teaching Writing. Diunduh dari http://web.hpu.edu/images/graduatestudies/TESL_WPS/07KimGenre_a17238.pdf
Nation, I. S. P. (2009). Teaching ESL/EFL reading and writing. New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis
Paltridge, Brian. (1996). Genre, Text Type, And The Language Learning Classroom, ELT Journal Volume 50/3 July
Poe, Roy W. (2006). The McGraw-Hill Handbook of Business Letters:4th ed. New York:McGraw-Hill. Inc
Richards, Jack C. (2003). Second Language Writing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Sayako Maswana, Toshiyuki Kanamaru, Akira Tajino. (2015), Move Analysis of Research Articles Across Five Engineering Fields: What they share and what they do not, Ampersand 2, 1–11. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amper.2014.12.002
Silva, R.V. (2014). Rubrics for Assessment: Their Effects on ESL Students’ Authentic Task Performance
Upton, T. A., & Cohen, M. A. (2009). An Approach to Corpus-Based Discourse Analysis: The Move Analysis As Example. Discourse studies, 11(5), 585-605
Wang, Hongli. (2005). A Pragmatic Genre Analysis of Job Application Letters, Sino-US English Teaching Volume 2, No.12 (Serial No.24). Available at http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.132.7571&rep=rep1&type=pdf
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2019-05-31
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Nurhasanah Halim. (2019). INCORPORATING GENRE ANALYSIS IN TEACHING WRITING. Getsempena English Education Journal , 6(1), 148-158. https://doi.org/10.46244/geej.v6i1.872
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