Genre in the Classroom:

includes all of the major theoretical views of genre that influence pedagogical practice;

takes an international approach, drawing from all parts of the world in which genre theory has been applied in the classroom--Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, the Middle East, the United States;

features contributors who are all both theorists and classroom practitioners, lending credibility and authenticity to the arguments;

combines theory and practice in every chapter, showing how particular theoretical views influence classroom practice;

grounds pedagogical practices in their own regional and theoretical histories;

openly discusses problems and questions that genre theory raises and presents some of the solutions suggested; and

offers a concluding chapter that argues for two macro-genres, and with responses to this argument by noted genre theorists from three theoretical camps.