The effectiveness of integrating product and process approaches in the writing classroom / Faizah Baharudin

Most writing instructors normally focus on the product approach in writing which reasonably cater to the needs of examination oriented education system in Malaysian. McKay (1983) claimed that teaching writing has frequently focused on the end product rather than the process in ESL classes. However, a few studies have agreed on the importance of the process approach especially in developing creative and thinking process of the students (McKay, 1983, Katijah S. Johari, 2004). Thus, this study is conducted to investigate the effectiveness of integrating product and process approaches in teaching writing in an English language classroom. This quasi-experimental research is conducted in a higher institution situated in the Klang Valley. Hence, the data is gained through static group comparison and the data is analyzed using SPSS. The results show that the integration of the product and process approaches is efficient and able to improve students' writing especially in the aspects of content, language and organization.