The Study of Genres in Textbooks: An Analysis of Globetrekker
Karina Rodrigues Lacerda | 2014
For many years, genres were merely considered a literacy type of texts, but this meaning has been changed. Differente lines of genres’s researches started to appear as English for Specific Purpose, North American New Rhetorical and Systemic Function Linguistics which helped to build the meaning of genre, which consists in “communicative events”, “communicative purposes”, and patterns of “structure, style, content and intended audience” (Swales, 1990) of written and oral texts, and may be a tool for helping teaching practices of a second language. The studies of genre are complex and follow different paths, but these studies are important to bring improvement to education. In Brasil, genres became a demand to textbooks used in public schools, including for the first time second language text books.