- Title
- Alignment and implementation: process writing approach in Bhutan
- Creator
- Zangmo, Dechen; O'Toole, Mitchell; Burke, Rachel
- Relation
- Journal for ESL Teachers and Learners Vol. II, Issue 2013, p. 75-81
- Relation
- http://www.confluenceindia.co.in/journal
- Publisher
- Gaikwad-Patil Group of Institutions
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- A 2006 curriculum change mandated the Process Writing Approach (PWA) in Bhutan. It was anticipated that PWA would address the poor standard of Bhutanese student writing and help teachers to teach writing in English more effectively. Cultural and classroom factors have made previous introductions of new teaching practices in Bhutan problematical. Since PWA was originally developed to teach writing to native speakers of English, it is significantly different from contemporary local approaches to writing instruction. This paper reports on research into the implementation of PWA in Bhutan, discusses the results of test analysis of the 2006 English curriculum documents and evaluates the alignment between stated intentions, suggested activities and assessment practices. The results of semi structures interviews with a small number of stakeholders integral to the implementation will also be discussed.
- Subject
- cross-cultural curriculum; curriculum alignment; process writing approach; ESL teachers' challenges; imported approaches and methodologies
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1328179
- Identifier
- uon:25840
- Identifier
- ISSN:2320-7140
- Language
- eng
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