Presenter: Phuong Dzung Pho
A genre- and corpus-based approach to the teaching of essay writing
Phuong Dzung Pho
University of Social Sciences and Humanities,
Vietnam National University – Ho Chi Minh City
Vietnam National University – Ho Chi Minh City
There has been increasing interest in recent years in the use of corpora in second language teaching. This presentation reports an empirical study which combines genre analysis and corpus linguistics in the teaching of essay writing to undergraduate students in an English as a Foreign Language setting. Data obtained from the students’ performance on the move analysis and corpus linguistic tasks, their writing drafts, reflection papers, and questionnaires show that the combination of genre analysis and corpus linguistics was not only beneficial to the development of the students’ writing skills but they also developed students’ critical thinking and learner autonomy.