This document discusses different approaches to teaching writing, including product-oriented and process-oriented approaches. It also addresses challenges with implementing a process approach given time constraints. Additionally, it outlines different types of writing students may engage in, such as personal, creative, social, study, and institutional writing. Lastly, it briefly discusses portfolio assessment and timed essays as possibilities for evaluating student writing.

1. Writing
• Process approach
•Activities
•Assessment
possibilities

2. product process
oriented oriented
approach

3. produ
ct
 Focus on final product
 Focus on grammar &
form
 Includes analysis of
model texts
accura

4. proce
ss
 Focus on writing process
 Progress over time is
observed
 Creative: Students can
express feelings & ideas
fluency

5. Who

6. Process & product
go hand in hand

7. Teaching writing
must involve both!
But HOW?

8. Begin with the basics: Organization of
writing itself1
2
Give students a framework so they can
put their ideas into it
3
Your last step should be the focus on
grammar mistakes
Tipps:
4
But: There is no guarantee that students will
internalize the grammar practice

10. planning drafting editing final version
Is this a realistic writing process?

11. Reality:

12. plannin
g
drafting
Re-
drafting
editing
Re-editing
45 minute class
discussion
RESEARCH
brainstorming
reviewing
language study
interaction
Time?

13. It may be true that…
process writing is
time consuming
and some students
may not like it
we also want
students to write
quickly sometimes
sometimes process
writing is simply not
appropriate

14. howeve
rNone of these cirmumstances should stop you!

15. Or do you want your students to
become like this in their futures?

16. Our goal:Autonomous, efficient and
competent students who are able to
produce a (mostly) correct and
appropriate English text.

17. But i
Hate
writing

18. motivati
on+confide
nce=Resul

19. Types of writing (Hedge 1988)
Perso
nal
diaries, journals,
blogging, recipes,
personal notes
Public
applications, form
filling, letters of
complaint/enquiry
Creati
ve
poems, stories,
rhymes, drama, songs,
travel report
social
letters, emails, chats,
postcards, social
media, text messages
study
making notes while
reading, summaries,
essays, reviews, taking
notes
institution
al
advertisements,
business letters,
agendas, curriculum
vitae, notemaking

20. person
alBlog: a public diary
blogger.com

21. creativ
e
http://writingprompts.tumblr.com/
Examples...

27. Our generation will be known for nothing.
Never will anybody say,
We were the peak of mankind.
That is wrong, the truth is
Our generation was a failure.
Thinking that
We actually succeeded
Is a waste. And we know
Living only for money and power
Is the way to go.
Being loving, respectful, and kind
Is a dumb thing to do.
Forgetting about that time,
Will not be easy, but we will try.
Changing our world for the better
Is something we never did.
Giving up
Was how we handled our problems.
Working hard
Was a joke.
We knew that
People thought we couldn’t come back
That might be true,
Unless we turn things around
By Jordan
Nicholas
Grade 8

29. social
Classic communication:
student <-> student
teacher <-> student
student <-> penpal
Write a letter to someone you
would never normally write
to:
-Famous person
-Someone who bugs you
-Your Ex
- And so on
„Pseudo Communication“

30. Assessment
Portfolio
•Measures what students
have learned at the end of
the course/of the years
•Contains samples of
student‘s writing
•Process Portfolios /
Showcase Portfolios
•Ecourages students to
take pride in their own
work
Timed essay
•Measures writing
accuracy, time
management and thinking
skills
•Prediction of student‘s
performance on longer
writing assignements
•Proctored
•Efectiveness sometimes
questioned

31. references
• Harmer, Jeremy (2007): The Practice of English Language
Teaching. Harlow.
• Klippel, Friederike/Doff, Sabine (2007): Englischdidaktik.
Berlin.
• Hedge, Tricia (2000): Teaching and Learning in the Language
Classroom. Oxford.
• http://www.csuchico.edu/~gthurgood/232/process_and_product.pdf
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