Abstract

TEJADA, Harvey; CASTELLANOS OLMEDO, Marcela  and  ROBAYO, Felipe. Genre Analysis Applied to Two Textual Patterns for an English for Specific Purposes Course ESP. Folios [online]. 2017, n.46, pp.145-162. ISSN 0123-4870.

This article analyses two excerpts taken from two chapters of two textbooks in which two textual patterns were identified:(1) Problem-Solution-Evaluation and (2) Offence-Defence. The analysis, based on the principles of the applied-genre analysis (Hoey, 2001) and the characterization of legal discourse proposed by Lisina (2013), made it possible to coin the Offence-Defence pattern as a new one. Thus, this new pattern may be considered a contribution to both the textual pattern literature and the ESP field. In addition, the article presents a series of activities based on the Task-Based Learning Approach (Willis, 1996), graphic organizers, technical vocabulary, and the analysis carried out. This task has been designed for a second level ESP course on reading academic texts at Universidad del Valle in Cali, Colombia.

Keywords : ESP/EAP; genre; Offence-Defence; Problem-Solution-Evaluation; Task-Based Learning Approach; legal Hallmarks.

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