Traditional Approach VS Effective Approach in Teaching Writing to ESL Students
Traditionally, the teaching of writing can easily be reduced to teaching by correction – teaching after the event. Very often, the teaching sequence will be as follows: Discussion about the topic for the writing (providing ideas). Independent writing, with the teacher supporting as the students work. Work handed in and marked by the teacher, who identifies some spelling errors and makes helpful and encouraging comments on work. Work returned to the students. Often, when examining a student’s work over a period of time, several things become clear: there is a high proportion of brief, unfinished or poorly finished work the teacher’s comments and corrections seem to have had very little effect the writing does not seem to have improved much. Effective teaching emphasizes on teaching at the point of writing which focuses on demonstrating and exploring the decisions writers make as the writing happens . It is necessary for teachers to guide the students through the