Abstract

ARIZA MARTINEZ, Ana Virginia. The Process-Writing Approach: An Alternative to Guide the Students´ Compositions. profile [online]. 2005, n.6, pp.37-46. ISSN 1657-0790.

With this report I intend to share an experience about the use of some strategies of the process oriented approach with which I guided 9th graders at República del Ecuador school in 2004. This was a group of low-achieving teenagers whose writing was the least developed of the skills. Connecting ideas and getting coherence in a text was a daunting task for them. It was not really very difficult to guide the learners to write. The best products were those in which pictures were involved. In general they showed great interest and better outcomes resulted from pictures than from words. The simpler the task given, the better the written results. The teacher´s role was essentially that of a model and facilitator.

Keywords : Process writing approach; writing skills; writing tasks.

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