This study examines how novice foreign language (FL) writers develop their genre awareness, linguistic knowledge, and writing competence in a genre-based writing course that incorporates email-writing tasks. To define genre, the study draws on systemic functional linguistics (SFL) that sees language as a resource for making meaning in a particular…

Discusses the importance of genre approaches to teaching second language writing and how they complement process views by emphasizing the role of language in written communication. (Author/VWL)