Giáo án anh văn lớp 12 - QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION pptx

4 Teachers should correct all the errors that students make in their writing.. 7 A teacher will not be successful in his writing class if his students ignore the errors and corrections..

QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION

Are you agree or disagree with the following statements:

Agree Disagree

1 The type of writing that teachers get students to do will

depend on their age and their interests

2 Free Writing enables students to generate their own ideas

3 A model text should always be provided before students

start to write

4 Teachers should correct all the errors that students make in

their writing

5 Students should be provided a Checklist while they are

looking over their writing

6 It is easier for a student to find out errors in his partner’s

writing than in his

7 A teacher will not be successful in his writing class if his

students ignore the errors and corrections

8 With lower level classes, it is possible for the teacher to

redesign writing tasks in textbook so that they will become

easy enough for the students to write

TEACHING WRITING

 Kind of writing

 Writing correction

 The role of the teacher

Part one:

KIND OF WRITING

 The type of writing teachers get students to do will depend on their age, interests, and level

 The writing tasks/activities include writing postcards, letters of various kinds, filling in forms such as job applications, writing narrative compositions, reports, play scripts, advertisement, or poems

 There is no limit to the kinds of text teachers can ask students to write Teachers’ decision will be based on how much language students know, what their interests are and what teachers think will not only be useful for them but also motivate them as well

Below is the kind of writing teachers use for elementary to intermediate level:

Writing activities as controlled writing Writing activities as free writing

1 Gap-Filling

2 Re-ordering words

3 Substitution

4 Correcting facts

5 Dictation

1 Paragraph writing

2 Letter writing

3 Essay writing

Kind of writing students do

in form 12 How to develop a paragraph

Writing a paragraph

+ narrative + descriptive Writing a letter + formal

+ informal Writing a report

Writing an agenda

Note: Problems with Free Writing

 Problem for free writing: When facing a free writing such as writing a paragraph

to describe their own town or village, many students would probably find it quite difficult and make many mistakes If so they would find the task frustrating and probably not learn very much from it

 Students would probably approach the task in different ways and produce a wide variety of different paragraphs

Problems with free writing to Vietnamese students

- Lack of time

- Some students make many mistakes (grammar, structure, spelling, … )

- Some students have few ideas to write and some have few words to express these ideas

- Some students write in Vietnamese, then translate into English:  easy to make mistakes

- …

* NOTE TO THE TEACHER

Thus the only way to correct their work would be individually, book by book, this would be very time consuming for teachers

Therefore, teachers should help students progress beyond very controlled writing to freer paragraph writing by guiding their writing:

 Giving a short text as a model

 Doing oral preparation for the writing

a teaching guided writing

- Teachers give students model texts

- Students work in pairs / groups to write the outline (students may answer the suggested questions to find out the main idea of a text)

- Teachers offer students new words, structures, … used in a certain kind of writing (a letter, a report, a form of application, …)

- Students write (based on a model or an outline)

- Correction

Note:

1 Teachers may give students a text with many blanks to fill in if students are not good enough

Dear Sir,

I’m going to Marseilles with my brother from October 21 st to 23 rd Have you got a double room with a shower for three days? is the room ?

We would like a facing the sea, if possible Is there a restaurant in the hotel?

We don’t eat meat we like all other kinds of food

We’ll arrive Marseilles at about six o’clock Friday evening We plan to the hotel on Sunday morning

I’m _ forward to hearing from you soon

,

Tom Smith

2 Good students should have opportunities that they can be creative with

EX: (in writing a report, a letter, …)

- Place: beach / countryside / mountain…

- Time: last week / last summer / …

- Activity: go swimming / go hiking/ …

- Feeling: enjoy, have a good time, feel bored,…

b conducting oral preparation for the writing task

- Teachers & students read the Task

- Teachers & students work together to find out the outline: what to write about, how to write, which one to be written first, …

- Teachers discuss structures used in the writing with students

Part two WRITING CORRECTION

Correction is worthless if students ignore the mistakes and corrections

 Teachers have to ensure that students understand the problem and then redraft the passage correctly

1 Basic procedure for correcting simple written work in class

 The teacher writes correct answers on the board, or gets students to write them

 As the teacher gives the answers, students correct their own work

 Then the teacher moves around the class to supervise what they are doing; or students can exchange books and correct each other’s work

2 Techniques for correcting written work

 With more advanced classes and even with lower level classes, it is important for the teacher to correct students’ work individually

 Over correction can have a very demotivating effect One way of avoiding the over-correction problem is for teachers to tell their students that for a particular piece of work they are only going to correct mistakes of spelling or grammar, etc This will make students concentrate on that particular aspect, and cuts down on the correction

3 Ways of correcting students’ work more positively and effectively

 The teacher could only correct the errors that seem most important or only errors

of a certain kind (e.g., items that were taught recently, or just problems with verbs)

 The teacher could reduce the amount of underlining and write corrections in the margin; this would make the page look less heavily corrected

 The teacher could simply indicate where the student has made important errors, and asks him/her to try to correct them himself/herself This would encourage the student to look again at what he/she has written and think about possible errors

NOTE TO THE TEACHER

 For more advance classes, systems of abbreviations can be used Teachers regularly write in the margin to indicate different kinds of error, e.g.,

sp or S = spelling mistake

g or G = grammar mistake

wo or WO = wrong word order

T = wrong tense

W= wrong word

^ = missing word(s)

? = I don’t understand

This way helps students to correct all their own mistakes, and gives good training in reading through and checking what they have written and makes corrections look less damaging

 It is always worth writing a comment at the end of a piece of written work – anything from “Well done.” to “This is good work but you must look again at your use of grammar/your spelling/word order,” etc…

Part three THE ROLE OF THE TEACHER

 Motivator

- Teacher motivates students, creates the right conditions for them to generate their own ideas

- Teacher gets students involved in creative writing activity so that students find it easier to generate ideas

 Resource

- Teacher should provide information and language where necessary

- Teacher offers advice and suggestions in a constructive and tactful way

 Feedback provider

- Teacher should give feedback on students’ writing tasks with special care

- Teacher should respond positively and encouragingly to the content of students’ written work

- Teacher chooses the kind of mistakes to focus on when correcting their written work Overcorrection should be avoided

Note: Example of Checklist

It is very important to provide CHECKLIST to students so that they can do

self/peer correction

Errors may be: S & V agreement, pronoun, antecedent, plural/singular noun, verb forms, structures, punctuation, capitalization, word-order, …

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