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Teaching of Writing

Teaching writing involves two main approaches: writing for learning, where writing reinforces language skills, and writing for writing, focusing on writing skills. The document outlines the steps in the writing process, including prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing. It emphasizes integrating writing with other language skills and using a process approach where students progress through stages from planning to final draft. Key aspects of teaching writing include setting clear expectations, modeling, providing guidance, and incorporating feedback and revision.

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Teaching of Writing

Teaching writing involves two main approaches: writing for learning, where writing reinforces language skills, and writing for writing, focusing on writing skills. The document outlines the steps in the writing process, including prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing. It emphasizes integrating writing with other language skills and using a process approach where students progress through stages from planning to final draft. Key aspects of teaching writing include setting clear expectations, modeling, providing guidance, and incorporating feedback and revision.

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TEACHING OF WRITING

The main reason for teaching writing is to help students express


their thoughts in words.

 writing for learning : where writing is used as a practice tool


to work language being studied

 writing for writing : where writing is directed at developing


the skills as writers.
 Writing activities are an important means for consolidating language learned
in other skill areas ( listening , speaking and reading).
 Writing activities provide variety and can be in valuable in maintaining
motivation , by serving as a break from oral or reading activities.
 Writing activities serve as a record of what has been learnt orally , and also
help retention of vocabulary and sentence structures.
 Integrating writing with other skills makes learning event realistic and
demonstrates to students the usefulness of writing in real –life.
 Writing provides useful and convenient means for testing large numbers of
student.
 A step-by-step process in which some mastery at one level is essential
before the learner advances to the next level .
 The writing process is a series of steps to help you write a paper. It is like
using a map to get to unfamiliar place .
prewriting

Publishing
and drafting
presenting

Editing Revising
proofreading
 Ensure that you have students who wants to learn to write

 Analyse the linguistic demands for the task you set

 Context of a task
 To give students an idea of what is expected of them

 To provide organizational framework and language.

 To provide a model for imitation.


 Product approach:

◦ Students has given the greatest importance to producing error free writing of different

genres.

◦ Every the student produces the same composition skills .

◦ The students would have produced the sample of the target genre.
 Teacher provides appropriate guidance at each stage in process of evolving a

text.

 Teacher must know the procedures and process as well as what skills and

strategies.
 Step 1
 Generating ideas and creating motivation to write.
- Brainstorming
- Quick-write activity
 Step 2
 Planning and organizing.
- Enables students to think
- Group works
 Using comparisons when describing.
Example: It was as sweet as honey

 Providing models.
- Appropriate to different proficiency level of the students
 Establishing criteria of excellence using:
- Interesting comparisons
- Elaboration

 Writing first drafts.


- Helps in preparing the next lesson
 Revision
- Choose a few good drafts done by pupils.
- Make copies for the whole class.
- Discuss the selected drafts in the class so that pupils able to:
i) Add
ii) Delete
iii) Substitute
iv) Reorder
- Let students work in groups.
- Conduct a class discussion if needed.
- Read aloud portion of two or three students’ well written drafts.
- If found students who had completely gone off-track, an individual
conferencing should be arranged.
 Editing
- Let students to edit each other’s work.
- Write out the final copy neatly.

 Evaluation
THANK YOU

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