Some approaches to writing

Approach Goal Characteristics

The Use writing as a way to Allow the teachers to decide
Controlled-To-Free enhance the students what the students need to
Approach knowledge of grammar practice and then create
and structure controlled activities which
focus in one thing
Also the teacher can create
activities based on students
performance
The Free-Writing It is not an approach which
Approach works well with students
with low proficiency in the
Achieve fluency in writing language. This type of
practice which develops
fluency
in speaking might be need
to develop fluency in writing
The Organization in the The students do exercises
Paragraph-Pattern paragraph level that are directly or indirectly
Approach linked to how larger
chunks of writing are
organized into paragraph
units.

The A purpose-based Trying to get students to

Grammar-Syntax-Or
ganization Approach
approach internalize the necessary
to writing. forms for writing. Students
are given a specific writing
task and must find out what
vocabulary items and
structures are necessary to
complete the task
successfully.
The Communicative Give the students the Students should
Approach chance to level the act like writers in real-life
formality situations. Context has a
and content appropriately central role in
according to whom they communicative writing
are writing for and what exercises. So the students
type of writing they are benefit
doing. from doing activities and
practice which has as a its
goal a communicative
event.

The Process Make the students The steps of writing are

Approach successful and supposed to act as a
autonomous writers. process of discovery
by which the students not
only learn how to write, but
how to learn about a
topic.