1. Genre,
Text,
Grammar
Language & Written
Expression IV
Martinachi, Natalia
Gonzalez, Lucia

2. Language
Natural and cultural Individual and social
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Writing vs speech
● Visual forms
● Last in time
● Hierarchical
● Editable
● Sound forms
● Temporal
● Immediate
● Sequential

3. Why genre, text and grammar
model of language?
Their aim is to provide students with the ability to use
the codes of writing effectively and efficiently.
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4. Four perspectives on language
● Context
● Genre
● Text
● Grammar
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5. Genre
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Processes
❖ Describing
❖ Explaining
❖ Instructing
❖ Arguing
❖ Narrating
Products
Science Experiments Reviews
Letters Interviews Web Pages
News stories Articles

6. Text
Literary texts
Reflect and interpret
individual and social
life.
Factual texts
Aim of
communicating
knowledge
Media texts
Any text that are
used in channels of
mass
communication.
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context
Texts are always produced in context. They relate to a social environment, and to
other texts.
Representational Interpersonal Textual
meaning meaning meaning

7. Grammar
Functional
aspects of
grammar
Formal
aspects of
grammar
Figural
aspects of
grammar
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Noun,
pronoun, verb,
adverb,
adjective,
preposition,
conjunction &
interjection
What the
language is
doing
How language
can be used to
create images
to carry
additional
meanings

8. Connecting genre, text and grammar
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Grammar, choices and
limitations language-users
have when putting words
together
Genre, social
context and
relations in
which texts are
produced
Text,
language
processes we
use to
construct
products

9. Bibliography
Knapp, P. & Watkins, M. (2005). “Genre, text, grammar:
Technologies for teaching and assessing writing”. In University
of New South Wales Press Ltd (Ed.), A Genre-Based Model of
Language. (p. 13-37) Sydney, Australia
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