7.4.2 To Assess Learners’Genre Knowledge Acquired ...
Theories of genre knowledge have been used to evaluate the results of learning in both instructional and practice-based settings.For example,Zhang(2013)coded 40 texts written by five EFL Business students with the four types of genre knowledge proposed by Tardy(2009),namely formal,process,rhetorical and subject-matter knowledge.By comparing the genre knowledge possessed by students and that deemed to be important by eight international business professionals,Zhang identified differences between students’practice and the expectations from professionals in the field.Similarly,the two-level framework of intercultural genre knowledge developed in the present study can be also used to investigate learners’awareness on genre variation between L1 and L2 communities.