http://www.heddatan.com/the-relationship-between-reading-and-writing-in-the-esl-context-2.html A TEFL Web Blog by Hedda Tan Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:05:21 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 http://www.heddatan.com/the-relationship-between-reading-and-writing-in-the-esl-context-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-55 The Role of Reading in Teaching Writing | Teaching English Literacy in Asia Fri, 06 Feb 2009 05:26:57 +0000 http://www.heddatan.com/?p=69#comment-55 [...] This link between reading and writing is perhaps akin to Krashen’s (1984, as quoted in Eisterhood, 1990) theory on language acquisition. According to him, reading for interest or pleasure paves the way to developing writing competence. He claims that “the development of writing ability and of second language proficiency occurs in the same way: via comprehensible input with low affective filter”. He goes further by saying, “It is reading that gives the reader the ‘feel’ for the look and texture of reader-based prose” (Krashen, 1984:20). [...] [...] This link between reading and writing is perhaps akin to Krashen’s (1984, as quoted in Eisterhood, 1990) theory on language acquisition. According to him, reading for interest or pleasure paves the way to developing writing competence. He claims that “the development of writing ability and of second language proficiency occurs in the same way: via comprehensible input with low affective filter”. He goes further by saying, “It is reading that gives the reader the ‘feel’ for the look and texture of reader-based prose” (Krashen, 1984:20). [...]

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