A Contrastive Genre Analysis Of Vietnamese And English Job Application Letters- A Pedagogical Implication For Teaching Business Correspondence

Since the early 1980s, genre-analytic approach has been proved to be a useful tool for analyzing texts because it can help researchers, teachers or learners to understand the communicative purpose as well as the structure move of a text. In business settings, this approach becomes more effective in evaluating a discourse of business correspondence in terms of its move structure. This article has been conducted to explore the differences in the move structures between English and Vietnamese job application letters on the basis of genre theory with a pedagogical implication of a feasible method for teaching and translating business correspondence