The present study investigates the application of Genre Theory to the teaching of business report writing to university students. Five instructors, three raters and five groups of learners attending the fourth semester ...

Writing is still considered a difficult task for EFL students around the world. However, previous studies have demonstrated the efficacy of a process genre approach (PGA) in primary, secondary, and especially in tertiary ...

This article aims to discuss the presence of the genre meme in teaching materials, either as a teaching object or as language practice. To do so, starting from official documents, which guide the Brazilian practices of ...

The business plan has been widely included in the curricula of economics degrees and is key to business practice worldwide, but has not been studied from a socio-discursive perspective yet due to restrictions in its social, ...

The present research proposes a reflection on "gender", as the formulation of audiovisual discourses, and "genre", in the sense of the social construction of sexualities. To do so, an analysis was conducted about the first ...

Studies in Genre Analysis have been developed in order to explore the configuration of academic genres and to interpret their functions according to the discourse communities in which they operate. Some examples are the ...

This paper investigates the perspective of exploiting pairwise similarities to improve the performance of visual features for video genre retrieval. We employ manifold learning based on the reciprocal neighborhood and on ...