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- Title
THE STUDY OF THE GENRE-BASED APPROACH AND EFL STUDENTS JOURNALISM WRITING.
- Authors
Suksawas, Wannaprapha
- Abstract
The study of Genre-based instruction (GBI) has been used as a valuable resource for teaching writing in ESL and EFL contexts especially in English for Specific Purposes studies (Derewianka, 2003; Martin, 2001; Nueva, 2016). GBI highlights how language is structured to achieve particular social purposes (Hyland, 2007a, p. 148). Building on recent studies, the present paper reports the findings of a research project adopting a systemic-functional approach to analyse EFL students' writing in Journalism. It illuminates the roles of GBI regarding Thai students' understanding whilst writing letters to the editor and news reports, which are genres explicitly taught in the English for Journalism course for tertiary students. The study aims to point out the social interactions and the ways learners construct meaning in their written texts. Though previous literature concerning GBI focuses more on a quantitative perspective, qualitative data will be taken into consideration more in this paper. Not only will these data show the selections of learners' linguistic resources but also this information describes the significance of the socially constructed language learning in writing. The results revealed that the genre-based approach has a positive impact on the organization of the students' written texts and aids learners to establish their relationships with the readers. The approach helps students to develop a better understanding of text structures, enables them to gain control of the genres and heightens their awareness of conventions of writing in journalism. Also, students are able to employ linguistic resources that show their disciplined knowledge gained after the GBI intervention.
- Subjects
ENGLISH as a foreign language; JOURNALISM writing; FUNCTIONAL linguistics; STUDENTS; SOCIAL interaction
- Publication
International Journal of Business & Society, 2018, Vol 19, p235
- ISSN
1511-6670
- Publication type
Article