Discussion of genre- choice, goal orientated, staged, purposeful to achieve social purpose, meaning accumulating over a stretch of text. Genre should not be rigid and static, but flexible. Meaning is realized through lexical and grammatical choices and language is a resource for meaning making. Focus on textual resources to create cohesive and coherent texts, where language is a flexible dynamic interrelated system within which choices are made to create meaning. Also predict the linguistic resources students need in order to make meaning, language audit, role of language and choice
Linguistic analysis can be used to describe texts students could produce: teachers and students should have acces to successful texts to determine how texts are linguistically shaped and structured and how grammar and lexis is drawn upon: the genre. In genre beginning and stages can be identified on basis of shifts in lexical and grammatical patterning. As student move through school the type of texts they should produce becomes increasingly generalized and abstract, more interpretation and evaluation. This is done through nominalization, movein from chronological sequencing to embedding events as part of an argument and in using more evaluative lexis.