Bài giảng môn Phương pháp giảng dạy tiếng Anh: Chapter 8 - Phan Thị Thu Nga

Bài giảng môn Phương pháp giảng dạy tiếng Anh: Chapter 8 presents how to teach writing. The main contents in this chapter includes: Reasons for teaching writing, kinds of writing tasks, writing sequences, how to correct writing.

Chapter 8 How to teach writing

Chapter 8 How to teach writing

Harmer, J (1999) How to teach English Longman

I Reasons for teaching writing

 Reinforcement

 Language development

 Learning style

 Writing as a skill (the most important)

 Reinforcement

sentences using what they have

learned

 Language development

Actual process of writing

helping Ss to learn as they go along

 Learning style

Some Ss: picking up language by looking

& listening

Other Ss: needing time to think in

order to produce the language in a

slower way  writing

 Writing as a skill

A basic language skill

1 some kinds of writing: letters,

reports, advertisements

2 Some kinds of special writing

conventions (punctuations, paragraph construction….)

II Kinds of writing tasks

How to choose tasks: learners’ age, interests & level

Kinds of tasks: postcards, various kinds of letters, narrative

compositions, reports, newspaper

articles, advertisements or poems…

III Writing sequences

A) writing postcards

B) alternating dictation

C) newspaper headlines/articles

D) report writing

Read these sample lessons (page 80-84)

IV How to correct writing

Avoiding over-correction

 Telling Ss particular kinds of

mistakes to be corrected