The Concept of Genre in The English Language Class: Implications for the Students’ Intercultural Competence

• Authors: Mihaela Cozma
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In order to communicate effectively with people belonging to different social or ethnic groups, any language user is supposed to have not only a good command of the language code involved, but also what is generally known as “intercultural knowledge.” As a consequence, the development of the students' cultural competence is perceived today as a major aim of the foreign language education. Starting from this hypothesis, the paper discusses the manner in which the concept of genre can provide students with insights into cultural expectations of creating a text in both spoken and written English.

Keywords

EN

genre; genre conventions; intercultural awareness; teaching productive skills; teaching receptive skills

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Romanian Journal of English Studies
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 237-243

Dates

published

2014-03-01

online

2014-05-01

Contributors

author

Mihaela Cozma

• West University of Timişoara

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/rjes-2014-0027