This document provides an overview of the genre-based model of language. It discusses key aspects of this model including that it sees language as a social process understood through texts, which are meaning-producing events that occur in specific social contexts. The model recognizes genres as language processes used to accomplish different social purposes. It also discusses the relationships between context, genre, text, and grammar. Context refers to the situational and cultural factors, genre to the language processes, text to complete communicative acts, and grammar to the resources and choices available to produce texts. The genre-based model views these elements as interconnected.

1. A GENRE-BASED
MODEL OF LANGUAGE
by Knapp,P ;Watkins, M.
COLLEGE: ISFD N°41
SUBJECT: LANGUAGE AND WRITTEN EXPRESSION IV
STUDENTS: GIANELLA, JACQUELINE – DELGADO GISELA – JIMENEZ, ARIEL
TEACHER: SAUBIDET, STELLA
DATE: JULY, 2020

2. • Systemic Functional Linguistics is a linguistic theory that sees language as a
social process that contributes to the realization of different social contexts. It was
developed by Michael Halliday in the 1980.
• The Genre ,text and grammar is a model of language that improves students'
literacy outcomes, mainly writing. This model aim at explaining how language
works and why it is useful to have these categories in the teaching of writing. It is
based on genre-based approaches to writing
• Agenre-based model of language sees language as processed and understood in
the form of texts.A text can be any meaning-producing event, be it a book, a film,
an advertisement, a phone conversation and so on. This model sees text as a
social process.

3. • How do we learn to use language? Language is both natural and cultural,
individual and social. Language learning entails learning to speak and to
write.Differences between speech and writing:
Speech Vs Writing
time based medium spatial medium
sound visual
temporal exist in time
immediate deferred
sequential hierarchical
little editing can be edited
recounts events enhances abstraction, represent
ideas

4. • What is a genre,text & grammar model of language?This model recognizes that
children and language-users should acknowledge about arrangements of
language(texts) to serve specific social needs and requirements.
• The genre,text and grammar approach provide students with the ability to use
the codes of writing (the genres and grammar)effectively and efficiently.

5. Four perspectives on language:
• 1-CONTEXT: Texts are always produced in a context.
Malinowski(1967) coined the term 'context of situation' which refers to the
immediate environment where texts are produced and 'the context of culture' which refers to
the system of beliefs, values and attitudes that speakers bring with them into any social
interaction.
Halliday posed three relationships between context and text:
Ideational(the what),the content or stuff being talked or written about.
Interpersonal(the who),the social relations between the participants.
And finally,Mode(the how) which is the medium of the language event.Halliday described
these types of meanings as 'metafunctions'.

6. 2- GENRE: It refers to the language processes involved in doing things with
language(describing, explaining,instructing, arguing and narrating).Genres are classified
into different text types and their relevant structures . Another level above genre is
ideology this refers to the level at which texts are contested socially,it is generally out of
reach to the powerless and marginalised in society.
3-TEXT:Language as a system of communication is organised as cohesive units called
'texts'.A text is any complete act of communication such as greeting between friends in the
street,a television advertisement,a novel,or a film and so on.Texts can be classified and
organised in multiple ways:everyday,formal,entertaining and informational.Different
types of text have distinctive characteristics,depending on what they are made to do.
Usually texts are classified in:
~Literary texts:novels,epics,poems,dramas and sagas.
~Factual texts:technical descriptions,explanations,procedures,essays,reviews and
arguments.
~Media texts: print,broad-casting,film and studio.

7. • 4-GRAMMAR:Genre,text and grammar approach emphasises that grammar is related
to genre.Without genre,grammar is too abstract to be effectively teachable.
What is grammar? Grammar is a name for the resources available to users of a
language system for producing texts.A genre-based grammar considers how a text is
structured and organised due to the characteristics of particular genres in relation to
purpose,audience,message and structure and grammatical features.Grammar therefore
needs to deal with language from three perspectives:the generic(considers how genres
themselves make particular demands on the grammatical choices we have when
producing a text),the textual (purpose and functions of texts)and the syntactical(how
words are correctly ordered within a sentence).

8. -FORMAL ASPECTS OF GRAMMAR:.The formal categories of grammar are noun,
pronoun,verb,adverb,adjective, preposition, conjunction and interjection (later in English grammar the
article became a part of speech).
-FUNCTIONAL ASPECTS OF GRAMMAR: English language is organised in terms of
SVO(subject,verb, obeject) but different classes of words can function differently according to how we
use them;for example, nouns can be the subject and object of a sentence.
• Figural aspects of grammar:It looks at how language can be used to create images to carry aditional
meanings,figures of speech such as metaphor which is constant factor in all language we use.e.x 'The
library opens at 9 a.m.' ,we treat ‘library’ as though it could act of its own volition.Therefore, the
figural is very important in literary and media texts.
• Connecting genre,text & grammar: This model is useful because it is able to make explicit connections
between:
- genre, the social context and relations in which texts are produced
- text, the language processes we use to construct products
- grammar, the choices and limitations language-users have when putting words together in texts.

9. Bibliography:
• Kapp,P. & Watkins, M. (2005): Genre, gramar, text. Tech Teaching and Assessing
Writing.Australia:UNSW Pr
• Stellams.(n.d.)Isfd 41 18-lee4-genre,text,grammar. Website:
http://www.slideshare.net/mobile/stellams/isfd-41-18lee4genre-text-grammar-
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