Genre, text, grammar: Technologies for Teaching and Assessing Writing is a comprehensive reference text that examines how the tree aspects of language (genre, text and grammar) can be used as resources in teaching and accessible account of current theories of language and language learning, together with practical ideas for teaching and assessing the genres and grammar of writing across the curriculum.
An essential text for tertiary students of primary and secondary education, as well as an ideal reference for practising teachers in mainstream and TESOL environments, its important features includes:
-a model of language grounded in the relationship between genre, text and grammar
-the ‘genre as process’ model of teaching and learning
An examination of the genres of writing: describing, explaining, instructing, arguing and narrating.
Annotations of a range of students’ writing are provided to indicate structural and grammatical features. The text also includes a diagnostic model of assessing writing, many practical ideas for classroom use and a comprehensive account of grammatical terms.