Teaching Methods and Their Application in Writing Instruction in Primary School

Abstract

Text creation is an important part of teaching the mother tongue and literature in primary school. Being a productive process, writing requires a set of skills and knowledge underpinning the structure and the form of the text, as well as its content and design. Literature on methods highlights five approaches to teaching of writing: presentational, interactive, instructional, free and process. The purpose of the research with its results presented here is to determine which of the above methods teachers apply, and how and why do they apply them, in order to determine whether some positive developments in this field of teaching following the contemporary changes in education actually occurred. We have determined that teachers in both, class and subject teaching, favor the presentational teaching model, as a traditional and proven one, but immediately after it they choose i.e. apply the process approach. Teachers apply also other approaches to a greater or lesser extent, so that teaching of writing becomes dynamic and more interesting. However, we believe that an approach such as the process approach should be more often and more consistently applied so that students adopt effective writing strategies and thereby significantly improve their writing creation in primary school. Keywords: application; teaching of writing; text creation.