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The purpose of this study is to examine how elementary school teachers perceive genres, which this may become a basic research about how elementary school teachers reflect their context or genre centered perspectives on elementary educational sites. This research has two questions. The first one is ‘how elementary school teachers categorize and understand the genres included in textbooks?’ Another one is ‘how they think about the inclusion of extended genres into textbooks?'. This research reveals that genres are classified by various approaches,
such as literature-based, language skills-based, dichotomy-based(literature or not), and text type-based approach. Also the factors which affect the teachers' categorization of genres are the their knowledges acquired in high school period, the Korean language curriculum of educational university, and their teaching experiences at school. In addition, the elementary school teachers' perception of genre changes by the domains of language skills. Teachers put reading domain
on the center of their discussion about perception and extension of genres. But they responded to each domain differently when they discuss about instructional method of genres.