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
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2010
Subjects:	H Social Sciences (General) English language Research
Online Access:	https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/75984/1/75984.pdf
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spelling	my-uitm-ir.759842023-04-04T03:38:59Z A genre-based approach to teaching writing: report writing for english for science and technology (EST) / Lily Dripin 2010-03 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 https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/75984/ https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/75984/1/75984.pdf text en public masters Universiti Teknologi MARA Cawangan Sarawak Faculty of Education
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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
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A genre-based approach to teaching writing: report writing for english for science and technology (EST) / Lily Dripin

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