TSL 3107

TEACHING OF WRITING SKILLS

IN THE PRIMARY ESL CLASSROOM

TASK 1 GRAPHIC ORGANISER

APPROACHES TO
TEACHING WRITING

Product
Approach
Behaviourist
approach

Control practice of
focus language
structures

Learners copy
writing model

Organisation of
ideas is important

Emphases on end
product

TO
1 | L O R E T A J A N E T S . S U U T I N / P P G APPROACHES
TESL 2011/ GR
OUP 1
TEACHING WRITING

TSL 3107
TEACHING OF WRITING SKILLS
IN THE PRIMARY ESL CLASSROOM

Collaborative
Emphasis on
creative process

Process
Approach
More global

Focus on purpose,
theme, text type

2 | LO R E TA J A N E T S . S U U T I N / P P G

Four stages in product

approach:
-Pre writing
-Writing
-Revising
-Evaluation

APPROACHES TO
T
E S L 2 0 1 1 /WRITING
GROUP
TEACHING

Text as a resource
for comparison

TSL 3107
TEACHING OF WRITING SKILLS
IN THE PRIMARY ESL CLASSROOM

Genre
Approach
Learners study text
Influenced by other
features of the
situation
Writing varies with
the social context.

3 | LO R E TA J A N E T S . S U U T I N / P P G T E S L 2 0 1 1 / G R O U P 1

Regarded as an
extension of
product approach

Writing as
predominantly
linguistic