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Systemic-functional genre analysis: a social account of text and context grounding genre-based writing pedagogy

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Description

The article presents genre analysis as a framework in which linguistic choices are shaped by register, field and mode, and by Halliday's ideational, interpersonal and textual meta-functions. It states that "systemic functional genre analysis is a social one which considers not only the text but also the context in which the text is happened which leads into different language patterns". Social-based genres are characterized by goal-orientation, stages or phases, culturally-laden nature, fuzzy borders, macro genres and semiotic modes. The study uses these tenets to design its genre-based writing instruction.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • Instruction must make the situational and cultural context of texts explicit alongside their linguistic features

Constraints

  • The framework as applied here targets second/foreign language writing instruction for university EFL learners

Target Learners

  • Iranian BA EFL learners (sophomores and juniors, ages 21-25)

Learning Goals

  • Second/foreign language writing proficiency and genre awareness

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Key Sources

  • Nazanin Naderi Kalali, Kian Pishkar. (2015). Genre Analysis and Writing Skill: Improving Iranian EFL Learners Writing Performance through the Tenets of Genre Analysis. Advances in Language and Literary Studies 6(6). http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.alls.v.6n.6p.119
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title Systemic-functional genre analysis: a social account of text and context grounding genre-based writing pedagogy
description The article presents genre analysis as a framework in which linguistic choices are shaped by register, field and mode, and by Halliday's ideational, interpersonal and textual meta-functions.
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