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Process Writing



The acquisition of a language, whether our native tongue or a second language

presumes a process in which both receptive skills (listening and reading) and productive

skills (speaking and writing) intervene to affect and complement each other

simultaneously. It is through the integration of these four separate skills that learners’

language performance is comprehensively strengthened to attain the desired

communicative competence, in other words, the ability to communicate effectively,

both orally and in writing, to use language according to the parameters imposed by the

speech community in which they are inserted. According to Hyme (in Widdowson,

1989:132), who coined the term communicative competence, these parameters not only

involve the knowledge of composing sentences correctly according to grammatical rules

but also the possibility, feasibility and appropriateness of the utterance.