Friday 7 March 2008

Process or product approach?


Malaysian educational system has always been too exam-oriented thus posing constraints to writing instructors in completing their syllabus within certain frame of time. It's quite questionable on how much process approach is implemented in writing classrooms, meaning how much time is spent on the organization, planning and generating stages of writing. I am not very sure on any statisical research done on the use of process aproach among Malaysian writing instructors in classrooms but somehow I believe that quite a vast number of instructors still apply the very conventional route of teaching writing: pose writing topics and instructions, wait for the end product and give marks.

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