Applying Genre-based Teaching Approach in Graduate English Reading Instruction

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10.2991/icsshe-15.2015.112How to use a DOI?

Keywords

genre, genre analysis, genre-based teaching approach, graduate English reading

Abstract

Genre-based teaching approach is based on genre analysis, which applies the theory of genre and genre analysis to the classroom, and develops teaching activities revolving around the schematic structure of a text. This paper constructed an experiment based on the graduate English reading courses of China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) and graduate English self-access learning system. The experiment selected two groups of non-English majors in China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) Grade 14 on postgraduate reading course, within 62 people for each group. The whole experiment lasted for a semester, implementing traditional teaching approach to the control group while genre-based teaching approach to the experimental group. Through analyzing the pretest and posttest data, it proves that genre-based teaching approach is superior to traditional teaching approach.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Wenjing Yang
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TI  - Applying Genre-based Teaching Approach in Graduate English Reading Instruction
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Social Science and Higher Education
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 445
EP  - 448
SN  - 2352-5398
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