阅读真实语篇与英文商务信函体裁的习得——基于体裁教学法的行动研究

Reading Authentic Texts and Acquiring English Business Letter Structures——Based on genre-based teaching

阅读真实语篇是符合体裁教学法实施途径的一项体裁教学课堂活动。本文通过对比分析43名学生在阅读真实商务语篇前、后两稿函件的写作情况，探讨学生能否通过阅读真实语篇习得商务信函体裁的结构特征。这种实践中的行动研究对教师从事体裁语篇写作教学有着积极的启示意义。

Reading authentic texts is a classroom activity of genre-based teaching approach. It follows the educational/process approach which is advocated by Flowerdew as an effective way to achieve genre-based teaching. This paper analyzes 43 pair drafts of English business letters written by students before and after reading the authentic texts, and attempts to find whether students can acquire the structure of English business letter through reading authentic texts. The findings resulting from this kind of action research may have great significance for genre-based teaching of English writing.