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The Research Problem
1.6 The problem
Developing Communicative Techniques and Materials to Teach and Test Written English at the Secondary Level.
1.7 Definition of Terms
Communicative techniques in this study refer to the techniques which create an information gap so that learners feel a genuine need to
communicate their own ideas, opinions and feelings, by choosing the appropriate form of language keeping in mind the intended reader and the
message they want to convey.
Materials in this study refer to the dialogues, narrative and descriptive passages prepared to supplement the coursebook materials so as to give
meaningful practice in the grammar and vocabulary items to be used by the learners and also to provide exposure to pieces of communicative
writing.
For this study class IX of the secondary level was selected and the teaching and testing of writing included tasks which made
the learners write letters, brief notes, descriptive paragraphs, narrative paragraphs which included, story-writing and describing processes like
making tea and sharpening a pencil.
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