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Genre-based Approach to Language Teaching Background The notion of genre derives from a series of action research projects implemented by teachers and functional linguists in Australia during the past three decades. It was originally defined as a staged goal-oriented social process, emphasizing a series of phases of meaning making that are designed to accomplish something through interactions with others. This notion of genre was later given much emphasize as a crucial layer within the functional model of language and this function of genre helps to lay a foundation for the oncoming genre-ba