Reading for Writing—The Application of Genre Analysis in College English Writing in China

Abstract

Writing is seen as the most difficult one in the four skills of learning a foreign language. And also one cannot be quickly improved in teaching. Genre approach is a teaching pedagogy based on the theories of genre analysis. The purposes of genre approach are to cultivate learners’ genre awareness of texts and master a certain genre which has its own communicative purpose and generic structure, to help learners understand and apply generic knowledge in writing. The author analyzes the existing problems in teaching college English writing in China. Then, the author designs a teaching approach, combining the advantages of three genre approaches and the author’s teaching practice, which is suitable for college English writing in China. Last, some main findings are recommended in teaching writing.