The Overview of Using English Magazines in Upper Secondary EFL Writing Classroom from the Perspective of Sydney School Genre-Based Approach

  • Pajonsak Mingsakoon
  • Udomkrit Srinon

Abstract

According to the literature review, the current of using English as an international language is spread out all over the world. Sydney School genre-based approach (Systemic Functional Linguistics) is one of the most attractive choices applied to the classroom contexts where English is implemented through various stages and socio-cultural purposes. The classroom would be supported to analyze the meaning of the language in contexts, language use in everyday life, rather than language structure. SFL approach intends to study the language in every part of its system. Thus, the idea is brought to the classroom circumstance where nature of writing is designed based on scaffolding of text in a particular purpose. When regarding to the social purposes of texts types, it could be challenged that how an authentic magazine, namely Bangkok Post Student Week, could deserve particular school genre and macro- genre and provide appropriate scaffolds to facilitate for the secondary school students’ reading and writing for communication. This overview is anticipated that researchers would realize to what extent the language from scaffolding macro-genre and SFL approach could develop the learners’ communicative skills through authentic contexts of various social purposes.

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Published
2021-07-18
How to Cite
MINGSAKOON, Pajonsak; SRINON, Udomkrit. The Overview of Using English Magazines in Upper Secondary EFL Writing Classroom from the Perspective of Sydney School Genre-Based Approach. วารสารมนุษยศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยมหามกุฏราชวิทยาลัย, [S.l.], v. 10, n. 1, p. 236-250, july 2021. ISSN 1686-8897. Available at: <http://ojs.mbu.ac.th/index.php/johu/article/view/1521>. Date accessed: 04 july 2024.