7.6　Final Remarks

This study provides insights into how contrastive genre analysis can be used to promote mutual understanding of the genre conventions of different local communities rather than to teach a particular set of conventions to L2 learners.In order to correct the bias towards genre conventions of non-English-medium communities(in this case,China),the social and epistemological aspects of local communities were examined and explanations for the differences in the use of moves between English and non-English-medium communities were provided.This research also provides evidence showing that ESL learners were under the influence of the genre conventions of both the former and current community,suggesting that intercultural genre knowledge is important in both EFL and ESL context.