TEACHING WRITING doc

The words fit together to either make one long sentence or lots of short sentences.. The strong groups write down one long sentence while the weak ones write down as many different short

TEACHING WRITING

-Shape of a writing lesson

-Techniques for while (controlled) writing

(Adopted from English Language Teaching

Methodology-BA upgrading course-The Ministry of Education & Training -2003)

Shape of a writing lesson

Revision Word Cue Drill

Pre-Writing Stage - Establishing who, what, why…

- Making use of words, structures needed for the writing task

- Drafting & Redrafting While-Writing Stage - Performing the writing

Post-Writing Stage - Sharing & Comparing

Techniques for while – (controlled) writing

1. Substitution boxes

2. Transformation writing

4. Write - it – up

5. Recall

1 Substitution boxes

board The words fit together to either make one long sentence or lots of short sentences The

class is divided into strong groups and weak

groups The strong groups write down one long sentence while the weak ones write down as

many different short sentences as possible For stronger groups, the sentence with the most

words in the given time is the winner For

weaker groups, the group with the most

2 Transformation writing

The teacher gives the students handouts with a

short paragraph or a letter The students

rewrite the paragraph or letter as required by the

teacher The teacher can change information in

the paragraph in three different ways: change the grammar (e.g from the future to the past or from ‘I’

to ‘he’); change the facts (e.g from England to

Vietnam); change the meaning (e.g from ‘sad’ to

‘happy’)

3 Questions and answers

 The teacher gives students a series of

questions The students answer the

questions in full sentences The students have to, where possible, combine two

sentences into one and then put the

sentences together to form a coherent

paragraph

4 Write - it – up

 The students write notes or fill in grids

using the information collected from any speaking, listening or reading activities

Then, they ‘write it up’ in full sentences, or

as a paragraph

5 Recall

 This technique is used in the final stage of the lesson After listening to /reading a

story, students are asked to rewrite it,

using their own language Students can

work in pair or group.