Genre and Language Teaching

This approach is really useful for me for sure as I teach business Chinese for some business people. They need to read and write lots of contracts, invoices, quotations and receipts at their work. There's some particular format for this kind of documents. I have to say it is a very efficient way when you have a clear need for a specific topic.

Using materials in the real world is very important for genre approach otherwise students will create their own work which will be very hard to understand. Some people stated that genre approach will lead fossilization, however, I think if you even don't know what people usually say and write in a special area, how can you create a creative piece?