PRODUCT-ORIENTED APPROACH

Regard writing as textual products or autonomous objects

Writing as Sentence-level
Structure
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Teacher: examiner,
editor, proofreader
- Main interest: correct
use of formal
linguistic features
- Focus on training in
grammatical
accuracy
- Writing-instrument
for teaching grammar
and general
knowledge of
language
- Main method:
controlled
composition
- 4 stages process:
familiarization,
controlled writing,
guided writing, free
writing

Writing as Discourse-level
Structure
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Main aims is to enable

students to create
different types of
paragraph through
production of
sentences, supporting
sentences, transitions
- Practice free writing
through reordering
sentences in scrambled
paragraphs, selecting
appropriate sentences
to complete
paragraphs, writing
paragraphs from
provided sentences
- Write with particular
organizational patterns
or modes
- Involves sharpening
skills

Linguistic approaches to written

language in discourse
Theme and rhyme
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point of departure
Thematic choices are
related to ideas
- Firstly, put the theme to
orients the reader to
what is about to be
communicated
- Facilitates new
understanding of the
new information
- Will be able to write
coherently
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Clause relations
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