How to Help Students Write an Effective English Résumé.docVIP

How to Help Students Write an Effective English Résumé 　　【Abstract：】It is very important to teach students to write an effective English résumé. Students should learn to understand the purpose for which the genre of résumé is used，to familiarize themselves with the structural and linguistic features of résumés，and to compose a résumé independently. The present article explores those stages helping students write a résumé. 　　【Key words】students； résumé； genre； stage. 　　1. Introduction 　　When teaching writing，teachers should place emphasis on teaching students the formal staged qualities of genre in order that students can have a good command of the features of a certain genre. Hagan et al. （1993） point out that it is necessary to make the structures and features of the text explicit，and mastery of text types will not develop naturally. So teachers should introduce models and analyze them. If students write in a certain genre，first of all，they should be familiar with the purpose and main features of the genre. They can be given some samples of the genre and explore them. There are some distinctive stages in each genre that can make it achieve its purpose. Therefore，the following stages may help students write an effective English résumé： introduction or contextualizing，modeling and deconstructing，checking understanding，joint construction，independent construction，peer review，and summary. 　　2. The specific stages involved 　　In my lesson，I first introduce the lesson objectives，and the genre of résumé. And then，in the part of “modeling and deconstructing”，I ask students to discuss some questions about the genre of résumé in groups with the help of a sample résumé. This is very effective in this writing lesson，because the activities in this stage can let students find out the common format of a résumé，make them identify the common parts of a résumé and the purpose or function of each part，and help them to notice some structural and linguistic features of a résumé