I made this presentation as part of a M.A. course entitled Material development in second/foreign language teaching, taught by professor Rubena St. Louis.

1. Materials for Writing in EFL/ESL by Carlos A. Mayora March 2009

2. Defining Writing Stages Strategies Cyclical process Audience Reader- writer connections Cohesion Coherence Syntax Lexis Mechanics based on Kroll, 2001; Nunan, 1999; Kern, 2000 Writing Generation of meaning Cognitive Linguistic Discursive Social

3. The Process Generating Translating Reviewing Planning Organizing Goal setting Actual Writing Editing Revising Adapted from Flower & Hayes, 1981

4. Approaches to Teaching Writing Product-oriented Process Genre-based See Nunan, 1999 and Kern, 2000

5. The Product-oriented Approach Writing Generation of meaning Linguistic Following models Prescriptivism Form over meaning Writing as a one-shot linear skill

6. The Process Approach Writing Generation of meaning Cognitive Linguistic Social Generation of ideas Creativity Peer-edition Edition Fluency Development of voice Drafting Negotiation of meaning

7. Genre-based Approach Writing Generation of meaning Cognitive Linguistic Discursive Social Move awareness Awareness of audience’s needs and expectations Genre analysis Emphasis on discourse Text analysis

8. Materials to Teach Writing Writing as a means Writing as an end Ur, 1994 Through writing, students show their knowledge or mastery of a given linguistic item(s) Students read, speak, listen to get to produce original texts (i.e. create their own meanings), with a purpose and audience un mind