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Title: Identifying generic features of EFL students' online discussion postings
Related: International Symposium on Genre Studies (4th : 2007) (15 -18 August 2007 : Santa Catarina, Brazil)
Related: Bonini, Adair; Figueiredo, Débora de Carvalho and Rauen, Fábio José. Proceedings [of the] 4th International Symposium on Genre Studies, p.401-409
Related: http://www3.unisul.br/paginas/ensino/pos/linguagem/cd/English/37i.pdf
Related: Anais Proceedings
Publisher: Tubarão : University of Southern Santa Catarina (UNISUL)
Date: 2007
Author/Creator: Piriyasilpa, Yupaporn
Description: Online discussion activity has become an important part of many language classrooms, and has been employed as an alternative medium for students to communicate in the target language. This paper reports on a research project into the use of online discussions in a writing curriculum for English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students at a University in Thailand. The study investigates the rhetorical structure of the students' writing in online discussion postings over a 16-week course using Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). It was found that SFL genre can be used as a framework for the analysis of online discussion postings and such texts are often a combination of texts realising different genres. This study claims that treating the online discussion posting as a macro genre (MARTIN, 1994) is useful to the language teacher and researcher when observing students’ contributions in this particular medium of communication.
Description: 9 page(s)
Subject Keyword: online discussion
Subject Keyword: SFL
Subject Keyword: genre analysis
Subject Keyword: EFL
Resource Type: conference paper
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of Linguistics

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/112084
Identifier: ISSN:1808-7655
Identifier: mq-rm-2007004135
Language: eng
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