The teaching of textual genres through the "Portal for the Greek Language". An inductive method of acquiring writing skills: The textual genre of the Letter

This paper focuses on the methodology of using the tools provided by the “Greek Language Portal” for teaching textual genres to High school students with the goal of exercising and improving their writing skills. Τhe educational material provided in "Portal" helps the language teacher to rearrange and manage in the best possible way the daunting and sometimes dense and hard to organize, educational material of the existing textbook. Teachers are able to delve deeper into the methodology of speech production by inductively guiding students to understand the basic structure of the textual genre being taught, to consciously choose the appropriate style and vocabulary, drawing on a variety of textual examples. In practice, this combination helps to carry out a student-centered teaching that makes the educational mediator that helps students to acquire knowledge through the use of searching techniques and teamwork. Within this context, an example of teaching the textual genre of the Letter is proposed.