PROCESS GENRE APPROCH: BREAKING STUDENTS BARRIERS IN WRITING

Writing as one of the language skills that has an important role in communicating ideas in written form seems to be difficult for EFL students. This is because writing required the EFL students to consider various aspects such as content, organization, vocabulary, languages and mechanics. Since process genre approach is one of the strategy that is a synthesis of process based approach and genre based approach, it is predicted that it can overcome students’ problem in writing. This approach offers a solution in helping students to develop their writing skill by improving the five aspects of writing. This article higlights the writing obstacles of students and the potential of the process genre approach in enhanching students writing skill. This article also shows the teaching scenario using process genre approach and the procedure of the implementation