IT-BASED GENRE APPROACH IN TEACHING WRITING TO EFL LEARNERS: INSIGHTS FROM INDONESIA

Abstract

The process of genre-based instruction must be integrated with technology because of technological advancements in EFL teaching. Undoubtedly, the challenges that today's teachers must overcome are substantially more tough. They must contribute to and understand the growth of information and communication technology in the classroom. This encourages this research to figure out the integration of various applications and web pages in writing class whose teacher implements the genre based instruction. This objective is attained by employing a qualitative methodology through an EFL teacher and 37 EFL students observation during four sessions of the teaching and learning process. The data reveal that a variety of applications and web pages were used by the EFL teacher in genre based instruction to teach writing. Five were used in Building Knowledge of the Field, two in Modeling of Text, one in Joint Construction, and two in Independent Construction. It suggests that the learning process is today tightly linked to the internet as a learning resource and learning tool and is facilitated by technological developments that help both students and teachers. It is therefore impossible to separate the roles of teachers and technology in developing the current educational paradigm from their influence on its advancement.