The Effect of Product, Process and Genre-based Approach to the Teaching of Writing on EFL learners’ Written Performance in Terms of Accuracy, Fluency, and Complexity


Dr. Öğr. Üyesi ZAHRA TALEBİ GHAMREMANLOUY OLYA

Tez Türü: Doktora

Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Tabriz Islamic Art University, İran

Tez Danışmanı: Dr.Nader Asadi

Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2018

Tezin Dili: İngilizce

Özet:

Writing skill has been considered to be difficult for EFL learners in the performance of the composition in the language teaching and learning context (Richard, 1990). With the development of genre studies, developing EFL learners’ generic competence is viewed as the ultimate goal in the process of teaching and learning genres in academic, institutional, and professional settings (e.g., Swales, 1990,2004; Candlin, 1999, 2002; Bhatia, 1999, 2004). To attain the goal, this study attempts to adopt genre approach to develop EFL learners’ generic competence in writing. The main purpose of the present quasi-experimental study is to investigate the effects of three modes of developments (product, process, and genre-based) on EFL learners ‘accuracy, fluency, and complexity in written task production. to this end, 60 learners of English at intermediate level were chosen randomly as the participants of the study and assigned into three groups of experimental product, process, and genre groups. A written narrative task was employed to collect data from the participants. One-way ANCOVA was employed as the statistical means of analysis. The results were significant in the measure of accuracy and fluency but not in the performance of three groups in terms of complexity regarding S-nodes in narrative written production task.