On 28th October, 2014, Vietnam National Assembly issued the decision N88/2014/QH13 regarding “Curriculum and Textbook Comprehensive national education innovation Project”. Vietnam Ministry of Education and Training decided to bring in a new curriculum in all subject areas, including English. This curriculum was known as competence-based curriculum. In English language teaching and learning area, Genre-based pedagogy informed by Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) theory, which sees communicative competence as involving the mastery of different types of texts, is potential approach to be applied for the new textbooks and curriculum. In this article, procedures for teaching the exposition genre (Halliday & Matthiessen, 2014; Martin, 2009; Martin & Rose, 2008), which accounts for the highest proportion of all the genres in New English 10, was proposed with an aim to improve students’ writing through reading. | A genre-based approach to teaching new English 10
