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A genre-based approach to teaching writing: report writing for english for science and technology (EST) / Lily Dripin

The research documents an initiative in introducing a genre-based approach to writing English for Science and Technology (EST) reports in the Malaysian secondary school context for Form 5. The genre-based approach to writing was adapted from the English for Specific Purpose (ESP), the Australian gen...

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Main Author: Dripin, Lily
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Published: 2010
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spelling my.uitm.ir.759842023-04-04T03:38:59Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/75984/ A genre-based approach to teaching writing: report writing for english for science and technology (EST) / Lily Dripin Dripin, Lily H Social Sciences (General) English language Research The research documents an initiative in introducing a genre-based approach to writing English for Science and Technology (EST) reports in the Malaysian secondary school context for Form 5. The genre-based approach to writing was adapted from the English for Specific Purpose (ESP), the Australian genre-based educational linguistics and the North American New Rhethorical Studies. The approach was distinctive as it sought to use the genre-based pedagogy with English as a second language (ESL) students who take up EST as a subject in school. The aim of this research is to illustrate how and why such as approach may be applied to English as a second language (ESL) teaching in Malaysian schools. The study employed a qualitative research design and the data were obtained from several sources, namely a writing programme over a period of six weeks; collection ofsamples of students’ pre-test and post-tests texts which were analysed using Swales’ Move as developed by Swales (1990), and pre-test and post-test scores. 2010-03 Thesis NonPeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/75984/1/75984.pdf A genre-based approach to teaching writing: report writing for english for science and technology (EST) / Lily Dripin. (2010) Masters thesis, thesis, Universiti Teknologi MARA Cawangan Sarawak.
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English language
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Dripin, Lily
A genre-based approach to teaching writing: report writing for english for science and technology (EST) / Lily Dripin
description The research documents an initiative in introducing a genre-based approach to writing English for Science and Technology (EST) reports in the Malaysian secondary school context for Form 5. The genre-based approach to writing was adapted from the English for Specific Purpose (ESP), the Australian genre-based educational linguistics and the North American New Rhethorical Studies. The approach was distinctive as it sought to use the genre-based pedagogy with English as a second language (ESL) students who take up EST as a subject in school. The aim of this research is to illustrate how and why such as approach may be applied to English as a second language (ESL) teaching in Malaysian schools. The study employed a qualitative research design and the data were obtained from several sources, namely a writing programme over a period of six weeks; collection ofsamples of students’ pre-test and post-tests texts which were analysed using Swales’ Move as developed by Swales (1990), and pre-test and post-test scores.
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title A genre-based approach to teaching writing: report writing for english for science and technology (EST) / Lily Dripin
title_short A genre-based approach to teaching writing: report writing for english for science and technology (EST) / Lily Dripin
title_full A genre-based approach to teaching writing: report writing for english for science and technology (EST) / Lily Dripin
title_fullStr A genre-based approach to teaching writing: report writing for english for science and technology (EST) / Lily Dripin
title_full_unstemmed A genre-based approach to teaching writing: report writing for english for science and technology (EST) / Lily Dripin
title_sort genre-based approach to teaching writing: report writing for english for science and technology (est) / lily dripin
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url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/75984/1/75984.pdf
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