I absolutely agree with the process approach to teach writing, specially if we talk about beginners. The second language learner is in an interlanguage continum; therefore, he or she is experiencing many interactive processes. These depend on several internal and external factors, in this way, evaluating the production of a text as a product in one specific moment may be unfair and stressful for the learner. When I started teaching, the product approach was the only one I knew, therefore, that's the one that I used. In some way this is more objective to evaluate because you may determine some criteria, for example, grammar, text features and vocabulary to use as parameters, without considering the emotional or social factors that you may observe during the process. Now, as I know both of them I prefer the process approach. I can see that my studets feel more comfortable and motivated in this way.
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