How to teach writing? - Jeremy Harmer

How to teach writingPAULA JIMÉNEZ AND LAURA BURBANO R.

SUMMARY OF JEREMY HARMER’S BOOK “HOW TO TEACH ENGLISH”

Why teach writing?Reinforcement:

Visual.How everything fix

together.Coherence. Concient understanding.

Why teaching writing?

Mental process

Mental activity

Learning experience

.

Language development:

Why teach writing?

Learning styles.

Slower process

Writing

Faster Process

Why teach writing?

Gramatics.

Basic language

Skills.Paragraphs

Writing special

conventions.

PunctuantionStructure

Paragraphs.

What kind of writing should students do?

Level.

InterestsMotivate

them.

Find general or similar interests.

What do writing sequences look like?

Elementary.• Study of the topic

and then writing.• Produce something

alike.

Intermediate.• Staments for

writing.• Opinion or position

about a topic.

Advanced.• Upper

intermediate.• Advanced level.

Advance level.

Expose the topic or give their

opinión.

Write a report

about the topic.

Teacher recieve

the report and them

hands them back.

Share their

writing with theirs partners.

How should teacher correct writing?

Don’t correct in red ink and underlining.

Avoid “over correction”.

AVOID.

How should teachers correct writing?

We can have them correcting their own work.

Written symbols.

Write a comment.

Written symbols.

Written symbols.

Written symbols.

What can be done about handwriting?

Reflects personality or characters.

Double work.

(different

culture).

New writing system.

We can not ask them to change

their handwriting,but

for legibility.

Exams and crucial things.

How does writing fit into ESA?

Engage. Study. Activate.

Promote literature.

Promote the use of a journal.

“There is no limit to the kind of

texts we can ask students to

write.”

Thanks!