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Genre Pedagogy: Literacy and Teaching L2 Writing

The purpose of this study is (1) to determine if explicit writing instruction using the genre-based approach within the systemic functional linguistic (SFL) framework could be applicable to Japanese English as Foreign Language (EFL) learners as university students with differing levels of English proficiency and (2) to explore whether and if so how explicit writing instruction using a genre-based approach improves L2 novice writers’ understanding of different text genres.