Teaching Writing as a Process in English Classes

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to show the benefits of writing as an effective teaching approach to language and learning skills. Writing is a powerful activity which enhances students’ language skills, develops their metacognitive skills, their confidence, independence and interpersonal skills, which are very important for their future and their live in general. Students consider writing more often a burden rather than an activity which helps them.  A case study approach was taken. It is a qualitative approach where observation and interviews were the instruments used to collect the data. The questions that guide my study are how writing benefits students in developing students’ language skills and group work skills. The other question is to what extent teaching of writing as a process in multilingual groups leads to developing inter and intra personal communication skills. The study concludes that the teaching of writing as a process is effective and in a multinational learning setting it is essential that the teacher must play the role of a guide as well as facilitator.

Keywords: Learning, process, writing, product