• What is genre?
• How can genre be used as an organizing principle in ESL programs?
• How are genre and context explored in ESL classes?
• How can discourse structures be taught through genre?
• How can genre-based assessment tasks be incorporated into the language classroom?

These questions are addressed and answered in Genre and the Language Learning Classroom. This text introduces teachers and teachers-in-training to the concept of genre analysis and suggests ways in which the results of genre analysis can be applied to language learning classrooms. It provides genre-oriented activities that will help teachers extend and diversify their everyday language teaching practice. These activities focus on the relationship between genre and context, genre and discourse, and genre and language. Examples of genre-based course design and genre-based assessment are offered. The final chapter considers future directions for research and development in the area of genre-based language teaching.

About the Author
Brian Paltridge is Professor of TESOL at the University of Sydney. His most recent books are Ethnographic Perspectives on Academic Writing (with Sue Starfield and Christine Tardy, Oxford University Press, 2016), Getting Published in Academic Journals (with Sue Starfield, University of Michigan Press, 2016), and The Discourse of Peer Review (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). He is a co-editor of TESOL Quarterly, and an editor emeritus for the journal English for Specific Purposes.


Book Information
ISBN 9780472088041
Author Brian Paltridge
Format Paperback
Page Count 160
Imprint The University of Michigan Press
Publisher The University of Michigan Press
Weight(grams) 270g