Technology-Enhanced Genre-Based Writing

Writing has gained greater attention in today’s increasingly text oriented world. Technological advances have not only led to the emergence of new digital genres and new writing skills, but also provided new opportunities for learning to write in a second/foreign language. Thus, this chapter aims to discuss how genre-based writing (GBW) mediated through technology can create invaluable opportunities for second language (L2) writers to have knowledge and practice of writing within different genres in- as well as out-of-the class. In this respect, the chapter begins with a brief discussion on the GBW including the concept of genre, sociocultural theories of learning underlying GBW, benefits and challenges of integrating GBW in L2 writing, and the teaching-learning cycle as a teaching methodology that might be used in L2 writing classes. Then, the chapter provides practical suggestions with regard to the integration of several technological tools through GBW tasks and concludes with a sample task which illustrates the stages and procedures in a writing class following a genre-based approach to digital storytelling. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.