Writing blog posts

Claire Acevedo on literacy via genre awareness

Tuesday - March 12th, 2013
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Mark Hancock
Claire Acevedo on literacy via genre awareness - hancockmcdonald.com/blog/claire-acevedo-literacy-genre-awareness

Claire's presentation was a report on a Europe-wide project for accelerating literacy by making teachers and students more aware of the generic structure of texts. The scope of the talk was not confined to ELT, but education in the broader sense, and the idea of 'learning to read' and 'reading to learn'.

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GRETA Granada (Spain): María Martínez Lirola on teaching writing with genre awareness

Sunday - October 21st, 2012
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Mark Hancock
Annie McDonald
- hancockmcdonald.com/blog/archive/201210

María, who is a professor at the University of Alicante, began by asking the participants whether they had had explicit instruction in genre during their schooling. The answer for everybody was no. At school, we tend to have experience only of essay writing, with no awareness that there are many different genres of text, nor of how context and purpose shape the structure of these.

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