TY - JOUR ID - 12868 TI - Exploring Impacts of Consciousness-raising in a Genre-based Pedagogy JO - Journal of Research in Applied Linguistics JA - RALS LA - en SN - 2345-3303 AU - Jodairi Pineh, Aiyoub AU - Beheshti Nezhad, Seyed Farid AU - Khosravi, Robab AD - University of Zanjan AD - Y1 - 2017 PY - 2017 VL - 8 IS - Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language, Discourse and Pragmatics SP - 43 EP - 59 KW - Genre-based Pedagogy KW - Consciousness-raising Approach KW - Information Report Genre, Academic Writing, Volunteered EFL Students DO - 10.22055/rals.2017.12868 N2 - This study reports on the findings of a genre teaching course for developing academic writing of a class of EFL students in Iran. The information report genre was taught in a cyclical way of teaching and learning, which was started from ‘setting the context’ and ‘deconstruction’ of prototype information report genre, and continued with ‘joint construction’, ‘independent construction’, and finally ‘comparing’ with different academic genres. Results of the analysis revealed that the students have taken a significant leap towards controlling macro genre structures. Some progressions were also observed at micro language features such as lexical density and the frequency of embedded clauses. The findings of the analysis revealed that the consciousness-raising approach in genre teaching course might be a contributing factor for text development. UR - https://rals.scu.ac.ir/article_12868.html L1 - https://rals.scu.ac.ir/article_12868_38ac33559c7cbdb6128ce34a75e53801.pdf ER -