A study of the effects of the approaches to the teaching of writing on the efl instructors’ preferences at universities
Abstract
There are several ways to
approach writing in the classroom and there is no best way to teach writing
skills. Many learners cannot produce language although
writing is a productive and active skill. Being reluctant, unconfident and
unmotivated, they do not want to write in a foreign language. There are a
number of traditional and current approaches to student writing.
Writing-for-learning includes some form-focused and imitation-based approaches
like guided, controlled and product-driven. However, writing-for-writing is
directed at developing the students’ writing skills as writers. This article
aims to examine how teachers approach the teaching of writing at tertiary level
and also determine teachers’ preferences for which approach they use in the
classroom and what type of writing teacher they are. A questionnaire in which
seventy-one instructors teaching English at a variety of universities
participated was conducted. This questionnaire including their preferences for
teaching practices was analysed in SPSS. In the lights of the findings
discovered, many teachers choose to integrate writing with other language
skills. Skill integration is an increasingly popular approach to teaching
writing. However, they have a negative attitude towards traditional approaches
like teaching writing in isolation. There is a growing interest in the number
of teachers who are in favour of writing as a creative, cooperative and
integrated skill. Teachers can teach English best as an integrated mode, so
content-based and task-based teaching methods are proposed as communication
involves the integration of all language skills.
Keywords
Kaynakça
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Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
İngilizce
Konular
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Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yazarlar
Yayımlanma Tarihi
30 Aralık 2018
Gönderilme Tarihi
13 Kasım 2018
Kabul Tarihi
22 Aralık 2018
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2018 Sayı: 13
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