Teaching English Literacy in Asia

“There is a widely held belief that in order to be a good writer a student needs to be read a lot”. (Hedge, 1988:11).

Harris (1993:81) is also of the same belief as Hedge when he wrote in his book, “Introducing Writing”, that “reading and the consideration of written texts should form an important part of the teaching of writing.”

Writing seems to have taken on different definitions for different groups of people in order to suit their different needs and purposes for writing.