چکیده:
The current study investigated the effectiveness of genre-based instruction on the development of EFL learners’ writing skills. Participants were 34 undergraduate students majoring in textile engineering at an Iranian state university، and they had enrolled in the English for specific academic purposes course. Participants were taught how to write 4 types of business letters، highlighting the presentation of appropriate moves and lexicogrammatical features. Furthermore، a letter writing attitude questionnaire was administered to the participants at the end of the semester. Participants’ abilities in writing letters were measured across the 4 letter writing tasks. Results revealed that those who had been exposed to the genre-based instruction made great improvement in different aspects of writing letters such as content، organization، vocabulary، language use، and mechanics. Correspondingly، raising the participants’ awareness of the genre-based features of the letters contributed to their positive attitudes and production of high-quality texts.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Impact of Genre-Based Instruction on Development of Students' Letter Writing Skills: The Case of Students of Textile Engineering Narges Rashidi' & Golnar Mazdayasna2 1Yazd University, na.
Results revealed that those who ha been exposed to the genre-based instruction made great improvement in different aspects of writing letters such as content, organization, vocabulary, language use, and mechanics.
Keywords: English for Specific Academic Purposes (ESAP); Genre-Based Instruction; Letter Writing Skills; Textile Engineering Students 1.
However, to date, few research studies have been conducted to examine the impact of genre-based instruction on the development oflranian ESAP learners' letter writing skills.
3. Results The first research question investigated the impact of the genre-based instruction on the development of the participants' letter writing skills across the four tasks.
The results revealed that the genre-based instruction could significantly improve the participants' letter writing abilities: (View the image of this page) In order to answer the second research question, one-way repeated measures ANOVA was conducted to measure the participants' development on the five aspects of writing skills.
The results of the multivariate tests (see Table 4) revealed that the participants' performances on the five aspects of content, organization, vocabulary, language use, and mechanics significantly improved through the genre-based instruction (p = .
The findings confirm the results of earlier studies in which the participants benefitted from receiving the genre-based instruction concerning content, organization, and language use in their writing tasks (Burns, 2001; Elashri & Ibrahim, 2013; Henry & Roseberry, 1998; Luu, 2011; Swami, 2008).