Process approach and grammar instruction in ESL writing classes

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To correct or not to correct grammar issues? This is the question that ESL writing teachers have been asking since the 1970s up until the 1980s during which they taught Writing as a process of generating ideas, drafting, and then refining the final product by attending to accuracy issues. It was thought, then, that when students attend to accuracy in their papers from the beginning of their writing, it will distract them from paying attention to the more serious form of writing which is thinking about what to write. This theory, which focuses essentially on generating and developing ideas through multiple drafts is called the Process Approach. Advocates of the Process Approach believed that if students were engaged in writing about topics they choose themselves; and if they were given enough time to revise and refine their papers through multiple drafts, then their accuracy will improve as a natural consequence even if they never address their grammar issues.

Introduction
The positive and negative aspects of the process approach in ESL writing classes
Conditions until the 1970's
Conditions during the 1970's
The re-introduction of grammar in ESL
Conclusion
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[...] Process approach and grammar instruction in ESL writing classes To correct or not to correct grammar issues? This is the question that ESL writing teachers have been asking since the 1970s up until the 1980s during which they taught Writing as a process of generating ideas, drafting, and then refining the final product by attending to accuracy issues. It was thought, then, that when students attend to accuracy in their papers from the beginning of their writing, it will distract them from paying attention to the more serious form of writing which is thinking about what to write. [...]

[...] As a result, composition scholars started to include grammar instruction and second language acquisition theory classes in the curriculum of TESOL certificates and TESOL Master's degrees. We also see more and more in-service ESL teachers taking or auditing grammar classes so that they become more confident when dealing with error treatment and grammar instruction. And today, writing instructors are encouraged to attend to their students' grammar problems throughout the writing process by including grammar mini lessons that target specific patterns of errors. [...]

[...] In addition, during a peer-feedback session, the student writer gets a sense of how his audience will react to his written thoughts and hence he will know exactly what needs to be changed or further developed in order to convey his true message. As we can see, the Process Approach has scored some good points in that novice ESL students learn how to plan and organize their ideas into well thought papers. They learn how introductions and conclusions should be written, and they learn how paragraphs should be organized and developed. In other terms, they learn how to write academically accepted papers. [...]

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