GENRE Retno Apriliyanti (0203513048)

TEXT

CULTURE

Genre (Purpose)

Situation

Who is involved?

(Tenor)

Subject matter Channel

(Field) (Mode)

Register

Genre Division

Instructional Genre

Literary Genre

Academic Genre

Modern Genre

Instructional Genre

Literary Genre

Academic Genre

Reflective writing gives you the chance to think about what you are doing more deeply and to learn from your experience. It helps you make connections between what you are taught in theory and what you need to do in practice.

In reflective writing, first you write down the thoughts and feelings that you experienced while carrying out a particular activity. These activities can include writing an essay, viewing a film, volunteering, taking a class, or reading an article. Then you write to make sense of the experience, enabling you to grow in your understanding and to plan for the future.

Academic Genre

Modern Genre

Many witers use those terms interchangebly. Genre is intimately associated with

Halliday’s Systemic Functional Grammar, which attempt to describe

language in terms of its social purposes, especially its particular configurationof

the variable of field, tenor and mode.

Genre and Text Type

For Instance

Texts Functions

Spoofs To retell a humorous twist

RecountsTo retell events for the purpose of

informing or entertaining

ReportsTo classify and describe the phenomena

of our world.

Analytical

ExpositionsTo persuade the reader or listener that

something is in the case

News ItemsTo inform readers, listeners or viewers

about events of the day which are

considered newsworthy or important

Generic Structure

Notes: Cultivation and Historical Background are reversible

Tea

Tea is made by pouring boiling water on to the tea

leaves. This leaves come from the tea bushes, which

are grown mainly in India, Sri Lanka and China. Tea

first came to Europe from China in the 1600s. At first it

was brewed and stored in barrels, like beer.

TOBACCO

Tabocco is made from the dried leaves of the tobacco

plant. It oraginally grew wild in America. The Spaniards

brought tobacco to Europe in the 1500s and today

tobaccois grown in Asia, Africa and Europe as well as

American.

Tobacco leaf can be made into pipe, cigar or cigarette

tobacco, or snuff. Smoking is a harmful habit. It is

especially bad for the lungs and heart.

SILK

The beatifully smooth cloth called silk is made from threads

spun by the silkworm. This is actually the caterpillar of a

month. When the caterpillar is fully grown, it wraps itself in a

cocoon of fine silk, stuck together with gum. The ancient

Chinese were the first

Text Characteristics

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Based on sentence : (Well organized)

Subjects/Objects are realized in complex noun phrases : beautiful smooth cloth

Use of passive patterns (less personal, objectified) : Tobacco is grown, it was brewed

More emphasis on ideational meanings (grammatical resources change into past in historical information)

Grammatical Simplicity: (over the three sample there are nineteen finite verbs from fifteen sentences)

Cohesive : Using reference (Anaphoric)

Lexical Density: (There are some direct/indirect repeatation)

A text becomes intelligible only when it is placed

within its context of situation

Malinowski

Undestanding text

Production text

Classroom Aplication

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Situate the text firmly in its context before learners read or listen to it

Context Flagging #1

Sample Expressions

a. ‘You are going to read a tex that come

from the problem page of the

teenagers magazine”

b. You are going to listen a conversation

that takes place at the information desk

of an airport

is

aimed

to

activate

Schemas

Ask learner to guess the contect after an initial exposure

Context Flagging #2

Sample Strategies

a. Reading the first few line

b. Skimming the text quickly

In order to answer the question ‘Who

wrothe the text’, ‘what about’, and ‘to

whom and why’

is

aimed

to

activate

Predictive Skill

TEXT SAMPLE

Do you know what they were talking about?

Commentary: Activating

Schemas

Culture

Situation

Text

Write 250 words about your favourite pop group

Contextualizing writing task

Your favourite band are playing in your town soon. Write your

email (250 words) to a friend, who doesn’t know or doesn’t like

the band, and try to persuade the friend to come with you to hear

them

You have just won $10.000. What will you do with the money? (10 sentence)

Contextualizing writing task

You’ve just won $10.000. You are going to interviewed by a local

newspaper. What questions do you think they will ask to you?

Prepare your answer

Aim of Contextualizing

They are better to safeguard the content meaningfully that using the original one

TIPS

Do the strategy like in Anne Frank (write letter/notes regularly and reply to them in kind)

GENRE BASED

APPROACH

Retno Apriliyanti

Analyzing the text

Macrostructure of the text (obligatory and optional elements)

The texture of the text (Cohesive by using linking devices)

The lower level features (grammar, and vocabulary that encode the text register)

Genre-based approach is particularly well-suited for text type that are both

fairly formulaic and whose mastery confers social advantages of the users

Genre-based Approach

Is aimed at nore simply the ability to reproduce formulaic text type

Teachers is hopped to empower their learners – to give them acces to

the means of production that are valued in the target culture. Learner

need most is to use ‘have a go’ approach, it is known as processing

writing

Genre-based teaching

Checking learners understanding by asking some questions refarding the genre topic

Highlight the function of the text, it helps learners to undrstand the target culture

Short texts are best for genre analysis, e.g.: the abstract, introduction, or the bibliography

Identify the generic structure (obligatory or optional elements)

Comparing with another text which has similarity and diversity

Conclusion

Conclusion

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Certain recurring register combination become institutionalized over time and

are known as genres Genre theory argues that language is

the best learned through the analysis and mastery in specific genres, since as an approach best reflects the way language is shaped by – and shaped –its social context of use