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PURPOSE OF THE TEXT
(Derewianka, 2003).
Think about the different language we use for different situations in our lives. Ask yourself this: Do I use the same language and speak in the same way with my boss as I do with my parents or friends? How can you teach about the purpose of a text with your students?
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FOCUS ON MEANING AND CHOICE
- In genre-based approaches, learners are encouraged to identify, describe and analyse the creation of meaning
Halliday (2004) says that the language system uses 2 kinds of meaning
1. Experiential meaning: how we use language to represent our world
2. Interpersonal meaning: how we use language to create relationships with others
Grammar in the genre-theory is the set of options and choices we use whether we are speaking or writing which are linked to the meaning we want to make.
How can we ensure students consider meaning and choice when creating and comprehending texts?
- Extend learners' repertoire of grammatical choices both in their construction of meaning in texts and their comprehension of meaning in texts
- Help students become aware of how grammar is creating particular meanings relevant to the genre
- Choose a range of real experiences to structure meaningful language activities- school events, personal experiences
- Multiple meanings of words, word walls and images
- Multimodal literacy: Multimodal is defined in the Australian Curriculum as the strategic use of ‘two or more communication modes‘ to make meaning, for example image, gesture, music, spoken language, and written language