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of written texts Yan, 2005. The teaching learning in genre-based approach focuses on the understanding and production of selected type of text Lin, 2006.
The students will have the detail explanation of certain genre text so that in the end of the lesson, they are expected to be able to identify and produce selected
type of text in the correct form and purpose. The use of genre-based approach comes along with framework of teaching which is called as curriculum cycle.
Curriculum cycle consists of four main parts, namely 1 building knowledge of the field, 2 modeling of the text, 3 joint construction of the text,
and 4 independent construction of the text Paltridge, 2001. Building knowledge of the field aims to bring the students to the context culture and the
social purpose of the text, introduce them to the roles and relationship or the related components, and also the role of the language within the activity. In
modeling of the text, the students are involved in the analysis activity of the rhetorical staging of the text and lexical and grammatical
analysis as well. Joint construction of the text aims to involve both the students and the teachers to
produce the text using the rhetoric stage introduced before. Moreover, in the independent construction of the text, the student who are already know the correct
stages of a certain text genre are expected to be able to work on the selected text genre. The description of the curriculum cycle is presented in the following figure.
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Figure 2.1 Curriculum Cycle Hammond, et al, 1992