UTILIZING DIFFERENT KINDS OF TECHNOLOGY AND GENRE-BASED APPROACH FOR TEACHING WRITING IN AN ESP CLASS

Since English is gaining important concern nowadays, it is being instructed according to the specific needs of the students. In the case of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) class, one of the problems in teaching and learning English deals with the low writing skills. This study attempts to share a model of teaching writing in which utilize different kinds of technology (video, computer, Internet) and genre-based approach to facilitate the teaching of writing. This approach can be applied in three steps: 1) building knowledge of the field and modeling of the text, 2) joint construction of the text, and 3) independent construction of the text. In the first step, teacher can use video and computer when digging the students’ background knowledge and presenting the teaching materials. Then, teacher can also use computer when leading the students to construct a text collaboratively. In the last step, the students write a text independently and submit their work via email to the teacher. Then, the teacher gives some feedbacks using the computer (comment bar) and sends it back to the students. The students must revise their work and email it back to the teacher again. This teaching model is more interesting for the students, more efficient, and helps the students to produce better results in writing. Keywords: technology, genre-based approach, ESP student