Integrating Writing with Reading

The Requirements of the Teacher

1. The Ability to Organize Communicative Activities

The genre process approach is a quite demanding approach, in which a two-way communicational learning environment is critical. The teacher must use heuristic teaching style. Only through deductive teaching can students acquire the ability to evaluate and analyze the reading material as well as the ability to read for general information.

2. Very Sound Basic Linguistic Skills

Besides the linguistic knowledge, grammar rules, and cultural background information generally required for teachers of other approaches, teachers must also master the schematic structure of the relevant genre of the text, and be competent to use the relevant writing skills.

3. An Ability to Deal with the Unexpected in Class

This quality is essential to perform in-class collective reading, since it is quite unpredictable. Even though the main idea of the passage is unchanged, different class will come up with different paragraphs. The teacher must be able to adjust unsuitable linguistic phenomenon, observe coherence and conformity in writing, stimulate creative and logic thinking, and grasp the students attention in class.

References

• White, R and V. Arndt. 1991. Process Writing Harlow: London
• Badger, R and White, G 2000, A Process Genre Approach to Teaching Writing, ELT Journal, 54/2 153?160￡?Oxford University Press
• James Muncie, 2000, Using Written Teacher Feedback in EFL Composition Classes, ELT Journal, 54/1, 47?53, Oxford University Press
• Andrew Littlejohn￡? Language Teaching for the Millennium, English Teaching Professional, 2001.3
• Paul Garc’a￡? Teacher Training : Reshaping the Future of Language Teaching, American Language Review, 2000.2