Genre-Based Approach to Teaching Writing
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This paper was written as a result of concerns about how to improve the writing skills of Korean students. The main goal of the paper was to investigate the effectiveness of the genre-based approach to teaching writing in Korean educational context. To assess the genre approach, I examined, (a) the definition of the genre approach to teaching; (b) the differences between the process approach and the genre approach to identify which approach would be the most suitable for Korean educational context; (c) practical applications of the genre approach; (d) the benefits and problems of the genre approach to teaching writing; and (e) how to best apply the genre approach. Having explored these five questions, I support the application of the combined approach called the process-genre approach for the teaching of writing because it allows students to use language creatively based on the framework of a given genre.
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