Powers of Literacy

This book presents an original theory and practice for the genre teaching of literacy. The genre approach involves teaching grammar and text form explicitly again, concentrating on content, structure and sequence in the process of becoming literate. This new approach avoids the formalisation of traditional grammar, by linking different text forms to the different social purposes of texts. This volume presents this innovative approach to teaching with contributions the key theorists and practitioners in the genre literacy movement. It is of vital significance in the growing debate on methods of teaching literacy.