Promoting Genre Awareness in the EFL Classroom
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The author introduces genre awareness, a concept from ESP (English for Specific Purposes) and EAP (English for Academic Purposes), and relates it to its potential use in the EFL (English as a Foreign Language) classroom. She explains genre awareness as the ability to use the communication tool that is most appropriate for the purpose and audience. She recognizes several challenges to using genre awareness curriculum in the EFL classroom. Finally, she presents several useful genre awareness classroom exercises.
Author:
Diane Millar
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English Teaching Forum 2011, Volume 49, Number 2
Fishing, a hobby for people of all ages, sets the theme for this issue. Contributor articles explore promoting genre awareness in the EFL classroom, establishing textual authority and separating voices in referencing.