Place central importance on the process of revision; 

Let students discover what they want to say as they write; 

Give students feedback throughout the composing process (not just on the final product) to consider as they attempt to bring their expressions closer and closer to intention; 

Encourage feedback both from the instructor and peers; 

Include inpidual conferences between teacher and student during the process of composition。

Compared with product approach, process approach highlights the control of the whole writing: forming the ideals of writing, constructing the content of writing, revising what you write and finishing the final version。 Process approach views learners as the creator of language organization, allowing them to communicate with others and express their ideas freely。 Meanwhile, this approach sets each learner’s inner motivation as the center of teaching activities。 Following the approach, teachers are required to pay more attention to feeding back to the difficulties that students met in the whole writing process, rather than the final product alone。 

3。2 The definition of teacher feedback

Feedback was referred to by many names, such as commentary, review, evaluation, assessment, response, review, etc。 No matter what term it referred to, feedback is widely adopted in education as crucial for both encouraging and consolidating learning (Vygotsky 1978), and its significance has been admitted by the researchers and teachers working in the field of second language writing or foreign language writing。 As for the definition of teacher feedback, different scholars have defined the term differently。

In Ellis’s opinion, feedback is a cover term。 It is provided information by listeners after their receiving and understanding the messages。 Penny Ur (2000) defined teacher feedback as information that is given to the student about his or her performance of a learning task, usually with the objective of improving their performance。 In the Longman Dictionary of Applied Linguistics, teacher feedback is explained as any information, which provides a report on the result of behavior。来*自-优=尔,论:文+网www.chuibin.com

What widely accepted definition is Wiseman and Hunt’s theory that teacher feedback is the information that teacher provided to students, generally in oral or written form, which makes them know the status of their learning process。 Wiseman and Hunt hold the view that the more specific and deeper the feedback is, the better the outcomes will be。 In this definition, researchers focused on the verbal and written form of teacher feedback, but ignored some other important forms of nonverbal feedback message。 Whenever we write or gesture, we sending out our messages。 That is to say, beside the written and verbal feedback, teachers’ smile, nod or any other gesture may send a sort of messages to students too。