体裁研究三大学派与商务英语写作教学

Three Approaches to Genre and Teaching Business English Writing

关于体裁以及体裁教学法的研究已经有三十多年的历史,至今方兴未艾。在体裁发展史上主要有三大学派:北美的新修辞学派、澳大利亚的系统功能语言学派和专门用途英语学派。本文从其对体裁的理解、理论基础及研究特点的角度浅谈这三大学派并重点分析其对商务英语写作教学的启示,以期探究体裁教学法在我国商务英语写作课堂中的应用。

Within the last three decades, many researchers have focused their attention on the study of genre and genre-based pedagogy. In the development of genre studies, there are three important approaches to genre which interpret it from different perspectives: North American New Rhetoric(NR) studies, Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics(SFL) and English for Specific Purpose(ESP). This paper examines the three approaches in terms of their opinions of genre, theoretical foundations and key characteristics, and then analyzes their implications for teaching business English writing, aiming to study their further applications in business English writing classroom.