Teaching Writing: Product, Process & Genera Approaches
The writing is all product , process and genera. So relying on the situation it can be taught in any approaches discussed here .
The Product Approach The product approach to writing is based on the idea that learning to write involves understanding the grammar and lexis of the language and then reproducing those features accurately. it was used in the 1960s and 70s until the process approach became more popular. Recently though, a modified version of product writing, the genre approach, has brought it back into greater favour. Typical stages in a "pure" product approach would involve : 1. Presentation of a model text. For Eg if the title of the piece of writing to be produced was My Favourite Room the teacher might present a text describing her own favourite room. 2. The linguistic features of the text (here, perhaps the use and position of adjectives, prepositions of place, lexis describing furniture and colours etc) would be focused on. 3. Controlled practice would be given in these features. 4. Learners would write their own text, using the features practised and imitating the model. 5. This would be ma…