Abstract
This paper comes out of concerns about teaching English writing to Korean
university students. This study points out four problems in university
writing classes: first, a heavy emphasis on grammatical form; second,
overemphasis on final product; third, lack of genre-specific writing
across the curriculum; and fourth, the need for more diverse types of
feedback. To solve these problems, it suggests utilizing the balanced
instructional and curricular approach of the process and genre-based
approach to teaching writing. Based on these two approaches to teaching,
this paper provides four principles (guidelines) that can be applied
to Korean university level writing classes. The four principles (guidelines)
are: balancing form and function, scaffolding language and learning,
extending the writing curriculum, and providing meaningful response
and formative assessment. It is believed that these four principles
demonstrate how university writing teachers can apply them to class
effectively.
Keywords:
Teaching English writing
Writing instruction
The process approach
The product approach
The genre approach
Form and function
Scaffolding language and learning
Meaningful feedback and formative assessment
Introduction
Learning the process of writing is a difficult skill for students to
develop and learn, especially in EFL context, where exposure to English
is limited to a few hours per week. Students, learning English composition
as a second or foreign language, struggle with many structural issues
including selecting proper words, using correct grammar, generating
ideas, and developing ideas about specific topics. More importantly,
they have trouble developing functional language skills, such as proper
natural language use in different social contexts and using language
in creative ways. These functional language use problems are worsened
because writing teachers tend to focus largely on teaching students
grammar, and proper language structure, and typically see students as
passive writers. These factors tend to hamper students from improving
their classroom interaction and keep them from developing more active
learning in writing. Due to this gap between students' needs and teachers'
instructional methodology, the issue becomes how teachers can help students
express themselves freely and fluently to be more autonomous writers,
and how teachers can help students become more successful readers and
writers of academic and workplace texts. Additionally, the issue is
how teachers can help students understand social functions, allowing
them to make writing more meaningful and productive in different social
contexts. There is pressing need for composition class to help students
develop their skills in using language by experiencing a whole writing
process as well as knowledge of the contexts in which writing happens
and the purpose of the writing.
This paper attempts to provide some guidance to teaching writing in
EFL contexts, especially in Korea. First, we more specifically discuss
major problems of teaching writing in EFL contexts. Second, we review
the literature on two major strands of writing methodology: the process
approach and the genre approach. Finally, we provide four principles
toward the process genre approach, which could be introduced in the
curriculum of university composition classes.
Major
problems of Korean university writing
Both authors have experienced teaching university students in Korea.
The first author has taught college English in a national university
located in Busan. The second author also has worked for an English institute
that provides English classes for English proficiency tests such as
TOEIC, TOEFL, and GRE. Based on our teaching experiences in public and
private institutes, we discuss the major problems of writing instruction
for Korean university students that keep students from realizing their
full potential: 1. Heavy emphasis on grammatical form. 2. Overemphasis
on the final product. 3. Lack of genre-specific writing across the curriculum.
4. The need for more diverse types of feedback.
Heavy emphasis on grammatical form
Much of teaching writing in Korea still concentrates heavily on traditional
form-dominated approach that is mainly concerned with knowledge about
the structure of language, and writing development as the result of
the imitation of input, in the form of texts provided by the teacher
(Pincas, 1982b; Badger and White, 2000). In this approach, the writing
reinforces or tests the accurate application of grammatical rules. Controlled
composition tasks provide the text and ask the student to manipulate
linguistic forms within that text (Raimes, 1991). In other words, Korean
university writing classes emphasizes using the grammar correctly, using
a range of vocabulary and sentence structures, punctuating meaningfully,
and spelling accurately (Hedge, 1988). Also the issue is teachers often
find difficulties in adapting a new method successfully in their classroom
because students need for grammar instruction, and so they continue
to place linguistic accuracy at the forefront of their instruction.
Most students have been taught grammatical features separate from the
context and failed to find a close relationship between grammatical
form and function; therefore, their knowledge of grammar was not carried
over to their ability to write. In addition, even if the students have
developed a large vocabulary, which can be enough to express when writing,
their vocabulary cannot be applied into real communication.
Overemphasis
on the final product
Another issue is that Korean college students believe writing is
a linear process (Rohman, 1965), in which they follow fixed steps, such
as Pre-write, Write, and Re-write. However, in fact, it is claimed that
writing is a recursive process (Shaughnessy, 1977; Flower & Hayes,
1981; Zamel, 1983, and Hedge, 1988), which allows students to go back
and forth while writing in order to support or modify the initial ideas.
Kim (2000) points out Korean college students spent relatively little
time in editing and revising; thus, they show little flexibility in
changing their original ideas. Her study also shows their lack of competence
in composing is partially because of emphasis on the final product,
and their insufficient knowledge on writing strategies. Due to emphasis
on the final product, the interaction between a teacher and students
or between students themselves does not exist.
Lack of genre-specific writing across the curriculum
Korean university students enrolled in writing classes have a variety
of majors, and various reasons for attending the class, such as further
academic studying and improved job opportunity. Therefore, writing classes
might need to help students understand the social functions or actions
of genres and the contexts in which these genres are used (Bazerman,
1988; Freedman & Medway, 1994). Thus, classroom instruction that
addresses multiple genres would support students' needs in their various
academic and workplace. As part of this instructional change, university
writing teachers might consider initiating students into the academic
discourse community (Bizzell, 1982), and teach the discourse conventions
of school and workplace genres as a tool for empowering students with
linguistic resources for social success (Kress, 1993; Martin, 1993b).
The need for more diverse types of feedback
Korean students are traditionally accustomed to being given specific
instructions from teachers, and to receive authoritative feedback from
the teachers. Thus, students write for the teacher, not for themselves,
and as a result, teachers are the only audience for whom students gain
experience writing for. One result of this is that writing teachers
are often overwhelmed by the task of giving a feedback and correcting
students' writing. Due to the fact that students are passive in the
classroom, they naturally feel uncomfortable with cooperative interaction
that requires them to take an active role. Consequently, the teacher-led
assessment, which is prevalent in Korea, makes writing meaningless and
unproductive.
Theoretical Background
Badger and White (2000) state that the process and the genre approach
are complementary. Thus, we believe that examining their underlying
assumptions, the eclectic use of both the process and the genre approaches,
could offer a new insight on EFL writing.
The process approach
A process-oriented approach to teaching writing is an idea that began
to flourish 30 years ago, as a result of extensive research on first-language
writing (Reyes, cited in Montague, 1995). The attention to the writer
as language learner and creator of text has led to a "process approach,"
with a new range of classroom tasks characterized by the use of journals,
invention, peer collaboration, revision, and attention to content before
form (Raimes, 1991). A concern with the process approach is how writers
generate ideas, record them, and refine them in order to form a text.
Process approach researchers explore writing behaviors, by focusing
on studying and understanding the process of composing (Zamel, 1983).
Flower and Hayes (1981) established the model of writing processes:
planning, writing, and reviewing. These processes are recursive and
interactive, and these mental acts can be reviewed, evaluated, and revised,
even before any text has been produced at all. They suggest that the
best way to model the writing process is to study a writer's thinking
aloud protocols as the principle research tool, thus capturing a detailed
record of what is going on in the writer's mind during the act of composing
itself.
The process approach to teaching writing emphasizes the writer as an
independent producer of texts so that teachers allow their students'
time and opportunity to develop students' abilities to plan, define
a rhetorical problem, and propose and evaluate solutions. Response is
crucial in assisting learners to move through the stages of the writing
process, and various means of providing feedback are used, including
teacher-student conferences, peer response, audio taped feedback, and
reformulation (Hyland, 2003).
In spite of the fact that the process approach emphasizes the writer's
independent self, it has its drawbacks (Bazerman, 1980). The disadvantages
of process approaches are that first, they often regard all writing
as being produced by the same set of processes; second, they give insufficient
importance to the kind of texts writers produce and why such texts are
produced; and third, they offer learners insufficient input, particularly,
in terms of linguistic knowledge, to write successfully (Badger &
White, 2000). Bizzell (1982; 1992) suggests teachers need to focus on
the conventions of academic discourse, emphasizing the relationship
between discourse, community, and knowledge. The outside forces that
help guide the individual writer to define problems, frame solutions,
and shape the texts also need to be considered. Horowitz (1986) also
raises cautions about the process approach saying that the process-oriented
approach fails to prepare students for at least one essential type of
academic writing, overuse of peer evaluation may leave students with
an unrealistic view of their abilities, and the process-oriented approach
gives students a false impression of how university writing will be
evaluated.
The
Genre approach
The process approach focuses on the writer, the creativity and individualism
of writing, and the process of writing as a whole, starting from the
generation of ideas through to the edition of work. Genre approaches,
on the other hand, focus more on the reader, and on the conventions
that a piece of writing needs to follow in order to be successfully
accepted by its readership (Muncie, 2002).

Genre instruction
has emerged as both a set of pedagogies rooted in linguistic theory
and a critical response to some of the tenets of whole language instruction
(Hicks, 1997). According to Hyon (1996), current genre theories have
developed in three research areas; English for specific purposes (ESP),
North American New Rhetoric studies, and Australian systematic functional
linguistics. Generally, the philosophy of the genre approach is that
all texts confirm to certain conventions, and that if a student is to
be successful in joining a particular English-language discourse community,
the student will need to be able to produce texts which fulfill the
expectations of its readers in regards to grammar, organization, and
content (Muncie, 2002).
Traditionally, genres were seen as fixed and classifiable into neat
and mutually exclusive categories and subcategories. For example, exposition,
argument, description, and narratives were treated as the large categories,
with sub-types such as the business letter and the lab report (Freeman
& Medway, 1994). Thus, in the traditional view of genres, teaching
genres means teaching textual regularities in form and content of each
genre.

However,
this traditional view has been criticized and recently the notion of
genre has been reconceived. As Hicks (1997) indicates, genre theory
calls for a return to grammar instruction, but grammar instruction at
the level of text, where personal intentions are filtered through the
typical rhetorical forms available to accomplish particular social purposes.
In other words, the central belief is that "we don't just write,
we write something to achieve some purpose" (Hyland, 2003, p. 18).
Most simply, reflecting Halliday's concern for linking form, function,
and social context, Martin and his colleges (1992) defines genre as
a goal-oriented, staged social process. Genres are social processes
because members of a culture interact to achieve them; they are goal-oriented
because they have evolved to achieve things; and staged because meanings
are made in steps and it usually takes writers more than one step to
reach their goals (Richardson, 1994).
The positive sides of the genre approach are that it acknowledges that
writing takes place in a social situation and is a reflection of a particular
purpose, and it understands that learning can happen consciously through
imitation and analysis (Badger and white, 2000). In the ESL context,
the genre approach is also useful for sensitizing ESL instructors to
link between formal and functional properties that they teach in the
classroom. As Bhatia (1993) suggested, it is important for writing teachers
to connect these two elements in order to help students understand how
and why linguistic conventions are used for particular rhetorical effects.
Moreover, because genres reflect a cultural ideology, the study of genres
additionally opens for students an awareness of the assumption of groups
who uses specific genres for specific ends, allowing students to critique
not only the types of knowledge they learn, but also the ways in which
knowledge is valued and in which it reflects covert assumptions (Coe,
1994).
However, an argument has been raised at times that teaching students'
genres would degenerate into teaching arbitrary models and textual organization
with little connection to a student's learning purposes (Freedman, 1983).
Sometimes, misunderstanding of the meaning of "explicit" teaching
caused this argument to arise. This means that, according to Gibbons
(2002), students are encouraged to reflect on how language is used for
a range of purposes and with a range of audiences, and that teacher's
focus explicitly on these aspects of language. Another limitation of
genre approaches that has been addressed is about students' role in
this approach. As Badger and White (2000) point out, the negative aspect
of genre approaches is that they undervalue skills needed to produce
a text, and see learners as largely passive.
The process genre approach
The model of the process genre approach is described in terms of a view
of writing and a view of the development of writing. In this approach,
writing is viewed as involving knowledge about language (as in genre
and product approaches)1, knowledge of the context in which writing
happens and especially the purpose for the writing (as in genre approaches),
and skills in using language (as in process approaches). The model also
describes that writing development happens by drawing out the learners'
potential (as in genre approaches) and by providing input to which the
learners respond (as in process approaches) (Badger and White, 2000).
Badger and White suggest five features of a process genre model; situation,
purpose, consideration of mode/field/tenor, planning/drafting/publishing,
and text. According to them, in the writing classroom, teachers need
to replicate the situation as closely as possible and then provide sufficient
support for learners to identify the purpose and other aspects of the
social contexts, such as tenor, field, and mode of their writing2. For
instance (if using manipulating Badger and White's example), writers
who want to be car dealers would need to take into consideration that
their description is intended to sell the car (purpose), that it might
appeal to a certain group of people (tenor), that it might include certain
information (field), and that there are ways in which car descriptions
are presented (mode). After experiencing a whole process of writing,
the students would use the skills appropriate to the genre, such as
redrafting and proofreading, and finally complete their texts.
By following the conditions set out above, composition courses will
not only afford students the chance to enjoy the creativity of writing
and to become independent writers (as in process approaches), but also
help them understand the linguistic features of each genre and emphasize
the discourse value of the structures they are using (as in genre approaches).
Principles
of the process and the genre approach
To compensate for major problems of current writing instruction for
university students in Korea, we provide four principles (suggestions)
of balanced instruction and curriculum toward both the process and genre
approach. In addition to describing our suggestions, we provide examples
of how writing teachers can effectively apply them to class instruction.
Balancing
form and function
Because writing class in Korea stresses grammatical rules and skills,
a more balanced approach between linguistic form and function is required.
Batstone (1994) summarizes the product and the process approach to teaching
grammar: in the product perspective (and genre perspective), grammar
is regarded as essentially a formal framework: a set of categories and
forms. But, instead of thinking of grammar in terms of an analytic display
of separate forms, the process perspective considers grammar as dynamic,
as a resource which language users exploit as they navigate their way
through discourse. Thus, the distinction, in brief, is between 'the
careful control of language for learner (as in product), and the creative
use of language by the learner (as in process)' (Batstone, 1994).
Integrating the formal aspects of writing with the writing process must
be an important component in writing instruction. However, as Grabe
and Kaplan argue, the issue is not whether language forms and structures
are useful, but whether students can recognize the relation between
language structures and the roles they play in conveying appropriate
meaning. Unfortunately, as Muncie (2002) indicates, students in EFL
countries taking composition courses are likely to be used to traditional
grammar instruction and put more importance on forms and structures
than on functions of language. Thus, Korean writing teachers need to
help their students understand that grammatical rules and linguistic
forms aids in clear understanding of meaning and is always related to
its function in the discourse. Also, teachers' motivation to focus on
form should come from an analysis of learner's communicative needs,
rather than from an externally imposed linguistic syllabus.
Scaffolding
language and learning
A scaffolding language and learning strategy is recommended in Korean
writing classroom because this strategy helps create active interactions
between a teacher and students and also between students themselves.
The term scaffolding was first used by Wood, Bruner, and Ross (1976,
cited in Gibbons, 2002) in their examination of parent-child conversation
in the early years. The scaffolding is temporary, as it is essential
for the successful construction of building, but it is a special kind
of assistance that helps learners to move toward new skills, concepts,
or levels of understanding (Gibbons, 2002). This emphasizes the view
that learning occurs best when learners engage in tasks that are within
their Zone of Proximal Development (ZDP), the area between what they
can do independently and what they can do with assistance (Vygotsky,
1978). Thus, the role of the teacher is pivotal in scaffolding this
development.
Derewianka and others (1990) involved in the "genre" movement
in Australia have identified four stages, named the Curriculum Cycle,
through which a particular text type can be made explicit to students.
The four stages of the Curriculum Cycle are: Stage 1. Developing control
of the genre. Stage 2. Modeling the text type. Stage 3. Joint construction.
Stage 4. Independent construction of text (Richardson, 1994; Gibbons,
2002; Hyland, 2003).
During the beginning stages, direct instruction is crucial, as the learner
gradually assimilates the task demands and procedures for constructing
the genre effectively. The teacher takes an interventionist role, ensuring
that students are able to understand and reproduce the typical rhetorical
patterns they need to express their meanings (Hyland, 2003). The focus
is on the form and function of the particular text type, and on illustrating
the process of writing a text, considering both the content and the
language (Gibbons, 2002). Before reaching later stages, students have
developed considerable background knowledge about the subject, are aware
of linguistic features of the text type, and have jointly (with a teacher)
constructed a similar text.

This scaffolding
method of writing will help students acquire the knowledge and skills
to be able to write their own texts with confidence. In later stages,
learners require more autonomy. As students write, they should keep
in mind the process of writing: creating a first draft, self-editing,
discussing the draft with peers and later with the teacher, and finally
producing a "published" text (Gibbons, 2002). This scaffolding
learning strategy will help Korean students foster creativity (as in
process writing) while acknowledging the ways language is conventionally
used to express meanings (as in genre approach).
Extending the writing curriculum
Since Korean writing classes are composed of students from different
departments, such as English, architecture, science, and economics,
academic writing in an English composition course should be incorporated
with other subject-area program. English writing teachers cannot be
held responsible for teaching writing in the disciplines, but they can
strive to create a program in which students learn general strategies,
rhetorical principles, and tasks that they can carry over into their
course work (Horowitz, 1986). To accomplish this, university writing
teachers should demystify academic discourse through identifying and
analyzing key genres for university students, in an effort to determine
what might best prepare students to acquire discipline-specific discourses
and what tools would be useful to them in their accommodation to the
demands of various disciplines (Swales, 1986; Leki, 1995).
From data collected from handouts in university classes, Horowitz classified
seven categories of writing tasks: summary of /reaction to a reading,
annotated bibliography, report on a specified participatory experience,
connection of theory and data, case study, synthesis of multiple sources,
and research project. In the Asian English for Specific Purposes (ESP)
world, Bhatia and English for business and technology (EBT) specialists
(1993, cited in Hyon) provide students with models of genres, such as
the sales promotion letter, business memo, job application, and lab
report as well as a set of worksheets, for identifying the language
strategies in these genres and for constructing business and scientific
texts using these strategies.
These categories of writing tasks by Horowitz and the models of genres
by Bhatia are examples that might be practiced in Korean writing classrooms
to help Korean students (having diverse majors in writing class) expand
specific and relevant genres and disciplines for a specific audience,
and to help them become more successful writers of academic and workplace
texts. Not only are these writing tasks and genre models a fundamental
planning tool for teachers uniting syllabus goals, materials, and methodology,
they are the ways that students come to understand and develop the abilities
to write effectively (Hyland, 2003).
To experience diverse kinds of texts and to apply various writing tasks
and genre models, students should construct their knowledge about the
specific contents. Teachers of ESL/EFL students should always consider
the background knowledge that readers are expected to bring to written
texts, whatever readings are chosen (Spack, 1988). Accordingly, the
writing curriculum should be integrated with various resources including
extensive reading materials (books, articles, and magazines), searching
for different types of information on the Internet, and watching movies
and documentaries. The wide range of reading resources will help students
extend their ideas and knowledge, and support them to complete their
final writings. In addition, by using diverse resources, students develop
the additional and useful vocabulary, experience the important linguistic
and semantic features of language, and have an opportunity to practice
a wide range of writings. Moreover, with self-discovery in writing,
students will be familiar with solving the problems by themselves, and
thereby they will be able to develop autonomy.
Providing
meaningful response and formative assessment
To provide more meaningful and productive assessment, Korean writing
teachers might consider applying various types of assessment that helps
students' interaction in the classroom and encourages more active learning.
While feedback to written text is probably essential for the development
of writing skills, there is less certainty about who should give the
response, the form it should take, and whether it should focus more
on ideas or on forms (Hyland, 2003). However, teacher's written feedback
is still highly valued by second language writers, and many writers
particularly favor their feedback on their grammar (Leki, 1990). Some
process advocates have argued that excessive attention on student errors
may short-circuit students' writing and thinking process, making writing
only an exercise in practicing grammar and vocabulary rather than a
way to discover and express meaning (Zamel, 1982). But, well-constructed
error feedback, especially when combined with judiciously delivered
strategy training and grammar mini-lessons is not only highly valued
by students but may also be of great benefit to their development as
writers and to their overall second language acquisition (Ferris, 2002).
Thus, rather than just focusing on teacher's written feedback, Korean
writing teachers need to apply alternative forms of feedback, such as
teacher-student conferencing, peer feedback, in-class grammar instruction
(particularly problematic issues in writing), and maintenance of error
charts or logs into class (Ferris, 2002).
Because teacher's written feedback cannot be ignored, a variety of feedback
techniques to students could be provided. The most common forms are
commentary, cover sheets, minimal marking, rubrics, taped comments,
and electronic feedback, but all aspects of student texts (structure,
organization, style, content, and presentation) should be utilized (Hyland,
2003).
The other alternative form of error feedback is teacher-student conferencing
(process-oriented feedback), referring to face-to-face conversation.
It supplements the limitations of one-way written feedback with opportunities
for teacher and student to negotiate the meaning of a text through dialogue
(McCarthey, 1992). The advantages for students are that they can be
active participants, ask questions, clarify meaning, and discuss their
papers rather than passively accepting advice (Hedge, 1988; Florio-Ruane
and Dunn, 1985; Pattey-Chavez and Ferris, 1997).
The idea of peer responses was developed from the L1 process class and
has become an important alternative to teacher-based forms of response
in ESL contexts. Peer response (process-oriented feedback) is said to
provide a means of both improving writers' drafts and developing readers'
understandings of good writing (Hyland, 2003). Pros and cons of peer
review have been debated.

The advantages
of collaborative peer review are: helps learners engage in a discourse
community and create an authentic social context for interaction and
learning (Mittan, 1989), and learners participate actively in learning
(Medonca and Johnson, 1994). Moreover, students benefit from seeing
how readers understand their ideas and also gain the skills necessary
to critically analyze and revise their own writing (Leki, 1990; Zhang,
1995). The disadvantages of peer feedback in a Korean context are that
culturally and affectively, students are not willing to share their
unsuccessful or unfinished writing with their peers. Additionally, they
might feel threatened by receiving feedback from their classmates, as
well as being as distrustful of feedback from other students (Moon,
2000), they have a tendency to focus on surface forms rather than ideas
and organization, and their comments may be vague and unhelpful (Leki,
1990).
However, in Korean writing classes, where written feedback from the
teachers is the standard, using various alternative forms of feedback
will help students actively participate in writing, help them gain the
skills necessary to revise their own writing, and reduce teachers' workload.
Song (1998) shows an integrated written feedback, which focuses more
on meaning without excluding corrections on linguistic errors, is more
effective than either surface-error correction alone or just meaning-based
feedback alone in terms of improving students' writing skills.
Conclusion
In EFL contexts, where exposure to English is extremely limited, more
effective approaches to writing and teachable skills should be applied
to writing instruction. To do this, what we suggest is using the balanced
instructional and curricular approach of the process and genre-based
approach to teaching writing. Both approaches have benefits and drawbacks;
accordingly, it is believed that complementary use of both approaches
helps student writers develop their skills in using language by experiencing
a whole writing process as well as gain knowledge of the contexts in
which writing happens and the purpose of their writing.
We have provided four principles based on the process and the genre
approaches to compensate for major problems of Korean university writing
instruction. Due to the fact that Korean writing instruction places
heavy emphasis on grammatical form, we suggest balancing form and function
to help students recognize the relationships between language structures
(as in product and genre) and the roles they play in conveying approaches
meaning (as in process). Additionally, Korean writing instruction overstresses
the final product; therefore, what we suggest is a scaffolding language
and learning strategy that helps create active interaction between a
teacher and students and also between students themselves. Through scaffolding
writing instruction, students are able to understand and reproduce the
typical rhetorical patterns they need to express their ideas. They are
also able to illustrate the process of writing a text, considering both
the content and the language. Later, students can write their own texts
with confidence.
In Korean writing classes, the need for genre-specific writing across
the curriculum is required because Korean university students in the
class have a variety of majors and diverse purposes for attending the
class, such as academic goals or obtaining better jobs. For this reason,
teachers need to help students become more successful writers of academic
and workplace texts and help them understand the social functions of
genres and the contexts in which these genres are used. To make writing
more meaningful and productive, and to help Korean university students
become more active learners, the writing teachers need to encourage
students to experience diverse types of feedback. Rather than just focus
on teacher's written feedback, writing teachers need to apply alternative
forms of feedback, such as teacher-student conferencing and peer-feedback.
These various types of feedback give both a teacher and students a chance
to negotiate the meaning of a text through dialogue.
Implications
English teaching methodologies, such as communicative language teaching
(CLT), the process approach, the genre approach, and the product approach,
are oriented towards English language education based in Britain, Australia,
and North America (ESL or BANA). These approaches cannot be successfully
applied to EFL contexts without consideration of different goals of
teaching writing to EFL learners because these approaches were not developed
specifically for the rest of the ELT world (EFL or TESEP countries),
(Holliday, 1994).
In the Korean social contexts, before these teaching methods are utilized,
Korean educators and the Korean government need to consider if these
methods are suitable to the needs and goals of students within EFL social
and academic contexts. To provide the best learning environment and
to effectively facilitate Korean students' learning English, we need
to identify the best teaching methodologies within Korean social and
academic contexts. In order to achieve appropriate classroom methodologies
in Korean contexts, we need to identify what Korean university students
expect from writing classes and what goals and objectives they have
when taking Korean university writing classes.
This study might be generalized to the countries that have similar issues
in terms of the learning and teaching of writing, such as those that
Kachru (1982; 1992) indicates as countries belonging to the Expanding
Circle, countries that recognize the importance of English as an international
language and that teach English as a foreign language, including Japan,
China, and Taiwan. Additionally, these Asian countries share many social
and cultural values with Korea, and so in many ways face similar issues
in terms of English language teaching.
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