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Phonological, morphological, lexical, syntactic and semantic features of languages.

Any passage, spoken or written, of whatever length, that forms a unified whole.

Texture is the semantically coherent feature that distinguishes text from non-text.

<p>Register is a set of linguistic choices associated with a particular situation, while genre refers to text categories belonging to a whole text's conventional super-structures.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>There is a long debate about whether it is possible to classify texts and whether such a classification is useful.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The five text functions according to Werlich are narration, description, exposition, argumentation, and instruction.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Beaugrande and Dressler's list of text types includes narrative, argumentative, descriptive, scientific, didactic, poetic, and literary.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>informative, expressive, and operative</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>narrative, descriptive, expository, and argumentative</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>detailed, personal, and subjective, using figures of speech, stative verbs, typically in present tense, presentative there, adjectives or noun phrases</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They help the teacher to work on different levels, linguistic, pragmatic, and communicative, and are essential components of EFL learners communicative competence.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The seven standards of textuality are cohesion, coherence, intentionality, acceptability, informativity, situationality, and intertextuality.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cohesion and coherence are text-centred notions, while intentionality, acceptability, informativity, situationality, and intertextuality are user-centred notions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The theory of context was first developed by anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski, who introduced two necessary notions for understanding a text: the context of culture and the context of situation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Any combination of the contextual features of field, tenor, and mode creates the register of a situation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Noticing how language becomes more or less formal depending on the audience; discussing what topics may be taboo in certain contexts or with certain people; listing genres and stating when using them is appropriate, for instance, when it is appropriate to send an email vs. sending an SMS; brainstorming lists of genres used in different professions; searching through piles of authentic texts and stating what the genre is and what its purpose is.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Providing students with plenty of scaffolding devices (models, templates, meaningful and relevant authentic input) but also with constant formative feedback.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Teaching students about different genres and their appropriate use helps them develop communicative competence and the ability to analyze and produce texts for different purposes and audiences.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The coherence and unity of a semantically coherent text</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The relationship between language and culture</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A text is a unit of language in use, while a sentence is a grammatical unit</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Memorizing grammatical rules and structures</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To help students understand how to use different genres in a variety of social contexts</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Scaffolding devices and formative feedback</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Interpretation</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Genre</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cohesion is the logical connections between lexical items and sentences, while coherence is the semantic links between them</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Register is a component of the context of situation</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Instructive</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Register refers to the context of situation while genre refers to the context of culture</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Narration, argumentation, description, exposition, instruction</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The absence of agreement on how to interpret text-type function itself</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They use figures of speech and stative verbs</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To convince the reader of a certain point of view</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Characterised by temporal sequencing of events and dynamic verbs</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To provide a framework for language acquisition and production</p> Signup and view all the answers