Language Pedagogy

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Review of Related Literature Language pedagogy has experienced three major approaches in writing: the product, the process, and the post process (genre) writing approaches. The product approach This approach aimed to underline form and syntax and the stress was on rhetorical drills (Silva, 1990).It encourages students to produce an end product which may be likened to a model essay normally provided by teachers. The main aim of the approach is to provide some linguistic knowledge to language students. It mainly highlighted sentence structures as a support for the grammar class. Based on this approach also known as ‘Models Approach’, the written text serves as the model for the learner. The underlying assumption is that when a model text, written…show more content…
The teacher normally prefers to spend more time analyzing students’ papers in place of interpreting cognitive activities for students. Errors are regarded as something that should be corrected, or, if possible, eliminated. The teacher‘s main role is to teach concepts of correctness and conformity. Steele (2004) asserted that this approach aims to offer students linguistic knowledge and consequently students are expected to imitate models of writing having dissimilar topics. Some writing investigators criticized this approach .They are of the idea that it frames learners’ writing into pre-existing styles, offering them little opportunity to reason imaginatively and thus does not improve their writing skill. The chief feature of the orthodox approach, at any rate, is a virtually exclusive worry with the features of the end writing or product, While little or no attention at all given to the writer, the writing process, or the assessment of work in progress (Zamel, 1983; Raimes, 1985; Arndt, 1987). Process writing…show more content…
In this approach different genres of writing, considered as socially constructed were highlighted. Hyon (1996) defined a genre as systemic functional linguistics supporting the link between language and its functions in social backgrounds. It means that the specified text can be examined through concentrating on the particular features of the language. A certain genre displays a given type of text. Most definitions regarding post-process theory highlight the fact that post-process does not attempt to reject process theory, but its target is to widen its scope by means of critical re-readings of it (Atkinson, 2003; Couture, 1999; Foster, 1999). Mc Comiskey (2000) in Teaching Writing as a Social Process, argues that the post process theory does not abandon the process theory, but wants to enlarge it to include social dimension of writing, the aim is to give writing a social process
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