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WRITING
Writing is the productive skill in the written mode. It, too, is more complicated
than it seems at first, and often seems to be the hardest of the skills, even for
native speakers of a language, since it involves not just a graphic
representation of speech, but the development and presentation of thoughts in
a structured way.
REFLECTION:
mmmmm The
“banking concept,” as
Writing is one way of providing variety in classroom procedures. It provides a
termed by Freire, is
learner with physical evidence of his achievements and he can measure his
essentially an act that
improvement. It helps to consolidate their grasp of vocabulary and structure,
hinders the intellectual
and complements the other language skills.
growth of students by
turning them into,
figuratively speaking,
comatose “receptors”
and “collectors” of
information that have
no real connection to
their lives.
ION:
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