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Effects of the Integrated-Skills Approach on Elementary School Students' Writing Performance

  • Modern English Education
  • Abbr : MEESO
  • 2008, 9(1), pp.52-72
  • Publisher : The Modern English Education Society
  • Research Area : Humanities > English Language and Literature > English Language Teaching

김규화 1

1청주교육대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

The aims of this study are to suggest writing tasks based on the integrated-skills approach (Task C) and to identify its effects on elementary school students’ writing performance. Two classes of students in the sixth grade, Class A and Class B, participated in this study, and three tasks were devised: Task A, which was extracted from the sixth-grade English textbook Task B, which was based on the separated-skills approach and Task C, which was based on the integrated-skills approach. Classes A and B had similar student self-assessment results in relation to their performance of Task A. They also completed Tasks B and C, respectively, and the results were compared. The results of the student self-assessment show that the students in Class A had higher interest and satisfaction means than the students in Class B and came up with richer written products than did the latter. In summary, Task C positively affected the students’ attitudes towards and performance of English writing tasks. Thus, by applying Task C, English textbook developers can provide students with learner-centered English writing tasks that will be able to draw their interest and active involvement and that will help them come up with rich written products.

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