Overview
- Breaks through the traditional static study of EFL learners' genre knowledge acquisition in the literature
- Initiates the study on the issue of the development of EFL learners' generic competence in the domain of Applied Linguistics
- Presents a comprehensive picture of how to develop EFL learners' generic competence in terms of reading, writing and translation?
- Provides an insightful framework for pedagogical applications in language learning and teaching
- Offers an impressive view of the direction for the future genre-based applications
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This work investigates the development of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners’ generic competence in reading, writing and translation within the particular Chinese classroom context. It provides a new perspective for the current teaching and research in reading, writing, translation within the EFL contexts and offers an insightful framework for pedagogical applications in language learning and teaching. Its findings will be extremely valuable not only in local situations, but also more generally in a wider regional and global context as well.
The book employs a series of research tools, including pre-research and post-research questionnaires, pre-test and post-test of reading/writing/translation, multi-faceted writing portfolios (including reflection reports), textual analysis and in-depth interviews. It involves 209 participants from a primary university in Wuhan, among whom 171 are undergraduates and 38 are postgraduates. ​And it draws on the analysis of such varied multi-sourced data both qualitatively and quantitatively.
Genre-based teaching is playing a critical role in initiating EFL learners into the discourse community of the target language. Developing EFL learners’ generic competence is viewed as the ultimate goal in the process of teaching and learning. This monograph effectively demonstrates that like genre-based English for Specific Purposes (ESP) pedagogies, it is also possible to take advantage of already acquired genre knowledge for use in EFL learning contexts. It offers an impressive view of the direction in which genre-based applications are likely to take in the coming years.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Developing Chinese EFL Learners' Generic Competence
Book Subtitle: A Genre-based & Process Genre Approach
Authors: Liming Deng, Qiujin Chen, Yanyan Zhang
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54845-1
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-54844-4Published: 16 June 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-52542-5Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-54845-1Published: 28 May 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 204
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 51 illustrations in colour
Topics: Language and Literature