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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!