The role of text linguistics in the foreing language class
ISSN: 1989-0796, 1130-7021
Any de publicació: 2002
Número: 13-14
Pàgines: 148-156
Tipus: Article
Altres publicacions en: Encuentro: revista de investigación e innovación en la clase de idiomas
Resum
Throughout the short history of text linguistics research, some studies have pointed out the relevance of the text as a basic unit to approach a foreign language. This article deals with some of the activities on text type characteristics put into practice with Spanish students with upper intermediate level of English language. Following the classical classifications on text typology (Werlich 1975, Beaugrande and Dressler, 1981, or Hatch, 1992, among others), this paper will provide an outline of the structure of a foreign language class based on text linguistics. The application of the outline will be shown in relation to two kinds of texts: diaries / joumals and descriptive texts.