This paper was written as a result of concerns about how to improve the writing skills of Korean students. The main goal of the paper was to investigate the effectiveness of the genre-based approach to teaching writing in Korean educational context. To assess the genre approach, I examined, (a) the definition of the genre approach to teaching; (b) the differences between the process approach an...

This study is concerned with the use of specific tools from Mikhail Bakhtin’s comprehensive literary work in order to investigate the notion of time/space in Bahram Beyzaie’s 1979 movie, The Crow. Employing the Bakhtinian notion of chronotope in the analysis of the movie as a cinematic text proves helpful in developing the notion of anachronotopicity, which is then utilized to investigate the w...

This study investigated whether film viewers recognize four basic genres (comic, drama, action and nonfiction) on the basis of genre-typical event cues or of genretypical filmic realization cues of events. Event cues are similar to the narrative content of a film sequence, while filmic realization cues are similar to stylistic surface cues of a film sequence. It was predicted that genre recogni...

Taking a genre perspective on design, this article proposes eight design recommendations for online newspapers. These recommendations are based on features that mediate a specific purpose and use between publisher and audience, which we describe as genre rules in terms of purpose, form, and positioning. They are also based on genre change regarding design, and the heritage from print regarding ...

There has been a growing interest in genre as a powerful means of analysing and understanding texts in cross-disciplinary areas. Genres tend to be conceived as generic structures that constrain individuals and communicative events. In second language writing pedagogy, much attention has been given to raising ESL (English as a Second Language) students’ structural awareness of genres as the rout...

The previous chapter reviewed three traditions of genre studies, namely, the new rhetoric, systemic functional and ESP perspectives on genre. While new rhetoric genre analyses focus on the interrelation between text and context and SFL genre studies stress the linguistic analysis of text, ESP approaches to genre take an approach that is some way between these two. This chapter extends the discu...

Abstract Gender representation in mass media has long been mainly studied by qualitatively analyzing content. This article illustrates how automated computational methods may be used this context to scale up such empirical observations and increase their resolution significance. We specifically apply a face gender detection algorithm on broad set of popular movies spanning more than three decad...

this study aims at uncovering the effect(s) of genre-based instruction (gbi) on listening proficiency among iranian efl learners. moreover, it seeks to explore the relationship between effectiveness of gbi and listening proficiency. for this purpose, 68 efl learners in two different groups at zabol university were selected. group a included 30 participants (12 males and 18 females), and group b...

For certain database tasks that require great exibility, some people are turning to a new kind of data representation in which the database is not constrained by a schema. Instead, each component of the database carries its own description, which is independent of other components. Systems like ACeDB, which has become very popular with biologists, and the recent Tsimmis proposal for data integr...

Abstract Genre-based approach has been the focus of interest in the teaching of language since the mid1980s. Genre is defined in terms of the use of language in conventionalized communicative settings. The present study made an attempt to scrutinize the effects of genre-based pedagogy on Iranian Pre-intermediate EFL leaners' reading comprehension as well as the interaction between their reading...