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Teaching writing to low proficiency EFL students
Arthur Firkins is a research associate at the Centre for Language in Social Life, Macquarie University-Sydney and an English teacher at TWGH Mr and Mrs Kwong Sik Kwan College, Hong Kong
Gail Forey is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her research interests are critical discourse analysis, English for specific purposes, and systemic functional linguistics. She has taught and researched in England, Australia, Japan, and Hong Kong
Sima Sengupta has a background in teaching English for academic and specific purposes, media English, research methods and research writing. Her recent research and publications focus on literacy development across a broad spectrum with special reference to advanced academic literacy and the pedagogy of rhetorical consciousness
Email: afirkins{at}yahoo.com
Email: eggail{at}polyu.edu.hk
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This article describes a genre-based literacy pedagogy which can be used with English language learners. The pedagogy discussed involves a combination of two explicit teaching methodologies, a genre-based and activity-based pedagogical approach. The pedagogy was introduced in an English Club at a local Hong Kong school, as part of a collaborative research project. In this article, we discuss the approach used and present examples of the students' work. The findings are particularly suitable for educational contexts where the students are low proficiency English as a foreign language (EFL) learners.