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The Practice of Teaching Writing Skills Using the Process Approach: The Case of Three Selected Secondary Schools in Wolaita Zone, Ofa Woreda

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This study focuses on the practices of teaching writing skills using process approach in three selected secondary schools in Wolaita Zone, Offa woreda. To achieve the objective of the study, the researcher employed a descriptive research design with mixed approaches was employed. The data were gathered via classroom observation, interview, and questionnaire. The questionnaire and interview consists close-ended and open-ended items. The questionnaire was translated in to Amharic. Samples of 94 students were selected from grade ten using systematic/quasi-random sampling method, and 4 English teachers of grade ten were purposively included. Structured classroom observations were conducted with the 4 English teachers. The data gathered through the questionnaire and observations were analyzed quantitatively, and the interviews qualitatively using thematic analysis and triangulated. Thus, the findings of the study revealed that though majority of grade ten English teachers used to plan and introduce their students writing lessons, help and assist them, encourage them to practice taking notes, make them brain storm, plan and structure their writing tasks, translate their ideas in to texts, suggest them to improve the contents, organizations, and vocabulary of the writing activities. Most importantly, the English teachers never encourage and motivate their students to follow the stages of process writing and never give enough time to pass through all the stages of process writing. They never encourage their creativity and critical thinking skills, and develop an argument to define the structure of their writing. Finally, the researcher recommended on the basis of the above findings so as to improve the practices of teaching writing skills using the most important practical alternative approach, process-oriented approach.

Published in International Journal of Secondary Education (Volume 9, Issue 4)
DOI 10.11648/j.ijsedu.20210904.11
Page(s) 91-107
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Keywords

The Process Approach, The Writing Skills, English Language, Communicative Language Teaching

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  • Department of Wolaita Language and Literature, College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Wolaita Sodo University, Wolaita Sodo, Ethiopia

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