8.1 The Role of Writing in SLA
It has long been recognized that reading and writing are integrally linked and in fact share many of the same cognitive and social processes.
- Readers and writers are both active participants in interpreting and constructing meaning from text.
- Reading and writing both emphasize the importance of schemata in mind about the content and form of text.
- Reading and writing are both complicated, interactive, and recursive processes.
The four different roles of writing in SLA :
Raimes (1991) identified four different focuses in second language writing that emerged at different times and continue to have an impact on today's writing instruction: focus on form, focus on the writer, focus on the content, and focus on the reader.