Materials for Writing – Was This the Case of the Runaway Bandwagon?

Abstract

The teaching of language has developed from time to time. Writing as one
of the skills in language learning has also gone through different concerns;
starting from less concerned in the Audio Lingual Method (ALM), becoming to
have more concerned in the Communicative Approach of Language Teaching
(CALT). The materials also differ for the focus of language learning are different;
from forms or structure focused into meaning or communicative focus; from
controlled activities into more natural and communicative ones. This paper
will cover the teaching of writing, techniques of gathering ideas for writing and
the influences of methodologies in writing tasks.