A Report on Reports: Two Dilemmas of Genre Teaching.

Autor/in	Cazden, Courtney B.
Titel	A Report on Reports: Two Dilemmas of Genre Teaching.
Quelle	(1993), (22 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Curriculum Development; Elementary Secondary Education; Expository Writing; Foreign Countries; Higher Education; Reports; Research Papers (Students); Teacher Education; Teaching Methods; Writing (Composition); Writing Instruction; Writing Skills; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Curriculum; Development; Curriculumentwicklung; Lehrplan; Entwicklung; Ausland; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Abschlussbericht; Berichten; Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerbildung; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Schreibübung; Schreibunterricht; Writing skill; Schreibfertigkeit; Australien
Abstract	Through focusing on the genre of informational reports, two dilemmas of genre teaching are explored: (1) a teaching dilemma about how to help students achieve flexible writing competencies through a combination of immersion in text exemplars and instruction in text features; and (2) a curriculum dilemma about how to combine the goals of socialization and critique. The challenge of preparing students to have deep understanding, independent thinking, and critical judgment is hampered by the fact-based, non-evaluative form of information reports frequently required of students. Reports that are fact-based should be enriched by contextualized variations, and should be the beginning of flexible concepts and skills. The teaching strategy most likely to achieve flexible competencies is to give students a formulaic utterance that works for a particular communicative purpose and then to provide situational contexts that motivate appropriate modifications. The social history of the informational report indicates that this report form has a hidden curriculum and promotes a particular kind of knowledge. The kind of knowledge that counts is objective, universally recognized facts; there is no recognition of the specific audience of the report or any indication of evaluation. Both text forms and critical forms of reports should be taught, even with the youngest children. (Contains 22 references.) (JDD)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC