Faculty of Education University Master in Bilingual Education for Primary and Secondary Schools
SPECIFIC ENGLISH FOR NON-LINGUISTIC SUBJECTS
TYPE 2
Historical Recount aims at retelling
historical events in a sequence way.
The generic structure is:
Background^Record
Events^(Deduction/Evaluation)
DEFINITION
This genre allows to account
for why events happened in a
particular sequence, in the
TYPES
past.
MAIN FEATURE
The main stages of this genre
are:
Background^Account
Sequence (^Deduction)
By Alexander Oporta Barrera
GENRES IN CLIL SUBJECTS
TYPE 1 DEFINITION MAIN FEATURE
Biographical Recount. In this genre, the This genre allows to develop the
protagonists are presented in relation to the role writer´s experience, personal The generic structure of this genre
they played in history. Excluding personal recounts, in which events are can be seen as:
information not relevant to that role. structured sequentially using markers
Period Identification^ Description
of The generic structure is: like “and then” and “next”.
Person-Identification^Episodes
(^Evaluation)
DEFINITION
This genre aims at describing the
characteristics of a historical
period, and so it is set in time rather
RECOUNTS IN HISTORY PERIOD STUDY than moving through time.
Discussion allows students to provide T
GENRES OF HISTORY different perspective and position of a
historical event.
Y
P
The stages are: E
(Background)^Issue^Perspective
2
s^Position
HISTORICAL Exposition aims to make
HISTORICAL HISTORICAL T
arguments for a specific historical
ACCOUNTS EXPLANATIONS ARGUMENT AND event.
Y
P
DISCUSSION The generic structure is: E
(Background)^Thesis^Argument
^Reinforcement of Thesis 1
DEFINITION
DEFINITION TYPE 1 TYPE 2
Historical Explanations tend to Consequential Explanation aims to Factorial Explanation provides a series These genres develop interpretations of
provide a number of causes of of events and unrelated causes and they the past, and argue about a specific
explain past event by a number of consequences. are not presented in a chronological way.
The generic structure is: position to consider, and evaluate
causes and or consequences, not The generic structure is:
possible interpretations of an event.
Input^ Consequences Outcome^ Factors (^Reinforcement of
chronologically. Two types were (^Reinforcement of Consequences) Factors) There are two types.
found.
Llinares, A., Morton, T., & Whittake, R. (2012), pp. 132-145