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Australian Review of Applied Linguistics
Vol. 13:1 (1990) ► pp. 100–122

The process vs genre debate

An Aboriginal education perspective

| Northern Territory University
This paper examines the debate between process and genre approaches to language teaching and learning in a particular cross-cultural and English as a Second Language setting. It argues a position based on the analysis of both the respective theoretical assumptions as well as the evidence from classroom practice.
Published online: 01 January 1990
https://doi.org/10.1075/aral.13.1.05wal
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