<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Technology has altered communication style from face to face to written communication. An increased participation in chats, blogs, and other forms of social media along with a growing trend to work from home or to study on-line has increased the need to perfect academic written communication. Lithuanian students who have been trained in product approach are in desperate need to enhance skills in creativity, self-expression, independence and criticality, skills that can be taught through a process or a post-process approach to writing. An overview of product, process, and post-process approach suggests that second language learners trained in process or post-process approach display significant advantages in academic writing compared to students trained in product approach. Writing has been neglected as a skill for several reasons in Lithuanian English classrooms, yet the demand for academic writing in today’s world is increasing in accelerated speed. Process and post-process approach provides necessary skills that have been highly neglected in ESL teaching in Lithuanian schools and universities.</p></abstract>

Technology has altered communication style from face to face to written communication. An increased participation in chats, blogs, and other forms of social media along with a growing trend to work from home or to study on-line has increased the need to perfect academic written communication. Lithuanian students who have been trained in product approach are in desperate need to enhance skills in creativity, self-expression, independence and criticality, skills that can be taught through a process or a post-process approach to writing. An overview of product, process, and post-process approach suggests that second language learners trained in process or post-process approach display significant advantages in academic writing compared to students trained in product approach. Writing has been neglected as a skill for several reasons in Lithuanian English classrooms, yet the demand for academic writing in today’s world is increasing in accelerated speed. Process and post-process approach provides necessary skills that have been highly neglected in ESL teaching in Lithuanian schools and universities.

A Desperate Call for Process and Post-Process Approach in Lithuanian ESL Classrooms

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Technology has altered communication style from face to face to written communication. An increased participation in chats, blogs, and other forms of social...

A Desperate Call for Process and Post-Process Approach in Lithuanian ESL Classrooms

Published Online: Dec 19, 2018

Page range: 210 - 224

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sm-2018-0018

Keywords
product approach, process approach, post-process approach

© 2018 Vaida Misevičiūtė, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

A Desperate Call for Process and Post-Process Approach in Lithuanian ESL Classrooms

Published Online: Dec 19, 2018

Page range: 210 - 224

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sm-2018-0018

Keywordsproduct approach, process approach, post-process approach

© 2018 Vaida Misevičiūtė, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
product approach, process approach, post-process approach