Research in the Teaching of English May 1999

Genre Development and Learning: Children Writing Stories, Science Reports, and Poems

George Kamberelis

Abstract

Explores children’s working knowledge of narrative, scientific, and poetic genres. Finds that children had significantly more experience with narrative genres than either scientific or poetic genres; and possessed more knowledge of text structure than micro-level features such as cohesion markers. Contributes to theorizing genre learning as a complex, contingent, and emergent process of differentiation and integration.

Journal
Research in the Teaching of English
Published
1999-05-01
DOI
10.58680/rte19991678
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