TY - JOUR ID - 13095 TI - Moving Against the Grain: Exploring Genre-Based Pedagogy in a New Context JO - Journal of Research in Applied Linguistics JA - RALS LA - en SN - 2345-3303 AU - Jodairi Pineh, Aiyoub AD - English Department, University of Zanjan, Zanjan, Iran Y1 - 2017 PY - 2017 VL - 8 IS - 2 SP - 136 EP - 158 KW - EFL Academic Writers KW - Genre Taxonomy KW - Rhetorical Strategies KW - Grammatical Metaphor (GM) DO - 10.22055/rals.2017.13095 N2 - Considerable literature explores the contribution of genre teaching in English academic writing. The role of this approach in developing academic writing of Iranian EFL students, however, has been underresearched. This study investigated the implications of using this approach with a class of undergraduate students in Iran. The current study reports on the findings of a project which employed a text-based cyclical teaching and learning method to teach argumentative genres, that is, exposition and discussion. Findings suggest rapid changes in appropriate mode of meaning making for developing macrostructures of such genres and a sharp decline in deploying unknown rhetorical strategies. Quantitative analysis of micronominalized features also shows some developments after the application of the genre teaching pedagogy. UR - https://rals.scu.ac.ir/article_13095.html L1 - https://rals.scu.ac.ir/article_13095_77c210233ee42697a1a769d6b80f8cb6.pdf ER -