APPROACH IN WRITING IN ESL CONTEXT

Students are encouraged to duplicate a model text

A traditional approach
PRODUCT APPROACH

Students are provided with a sample of text

Students are expected to create a piece of writing following the standard given

PRODUCT concern about the forms of the written products that students compose Emphasizes on mechanicals aspects of

PROCESS concern the process of how ideas are developed and formulated in writing Focuses on how clearly and efficiently a

writing (syntactical, grammatical structures student can express and organize his imitating models) Deal with sentence-level writing and paragraph-level organization ideas, not on correctness of form. a process through which meaning is created

Students are given a framework (illustrates Students are asked to draft ideas, a pattern of rhetorical organization) and asked to fit their ideas into this framework through such writing processes, students try to organize and express their ideas clearly

Stages in Product Approach

Stage 1: Model texts are read and the features of the genre are highlighted.

Stage 2: Consists of controlled practice of the highlighted features in isolation. Students study about the important features to write an essay.

Stage 3: Organisation of ideas. It is important to control the language used.

Stage 4: The end of the learning process. Students produce the product by using skills, structures and vocabulary that has been taught to them.