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TEACHING WRITING

•Why do we teach writing


•What should we do to develop
students’ skills of writing ?
•What are our roles ?
•What is the method of teaching
writing ?
Reasons for teaching writing

• It can help ss learn the language


• It gives technique if learning a language
• It is one of the four language skills
• It is a language competence ( Basic
Competence stated in the Curriculum)
What should we do ?
• Give activities that develop ss’ ability of
writing texts for communication
• Give a chance for ss to practice
• Exercise in class should reflex the process
of writing (planning, organizing idea,
revising, and editing)
• Developing is better than jugging
• Plan good activities for writing
• Let ss help each other
What are our roles

• A motivator ( motivate them write)


• A model ( give examples)
• A leader ( lead the students)
• A facilitator ( facilitate learning)
• A recourse person (give them some
knowledge)
HOW TO TEACH WRITING
1. CONTROLLED WRITING
2. GUIDED WRITING
3. CONTROOLED TO FREE
4. COMMUNICATIVE WRITING
5. PROCESS APPROACH
Controlled writing
• Copying ( rewriting a text /sentences)
• Gap –Filling (Close procedure)
• Reordering words
• Substitution
• Correcting fact
Guided writing
A. Parallel Writing
1. Students read a model of a text
2. Students write a paragraph similar to
the model
B. Writing complete answers
C. Hanging Sentences together
Controlled to free
A. Controlled writing (gap filling)
B. Guided writing
1. reading a text
2. Write a similar paragraph
C. Free Writing
Students write a paragraph of teir own
Features of Free Writing
• Students are free to write as much as they can
• Focus on content and fluency rather than
accuracy
• Teachers do not correct grammatical mistakes
• Teachers only provide comments on content and
fluency
Communicative approach
A. Focus on purpose and audience
Questions:
1 ( Why am I writing)
2(Whom am I writing to)
B. Principle :(W. is communicative act)
C. Features:
1. the audience can be the teacher or other people
2. readers make comments and suggestion
3. readers do not correct the writing
ASSESSING WRITING
Non Objective techniques:
1. Dictation
2. Grammatical transformation tasks
3. Picture-cued tasks
4. Vocabulary assessment tasks
5. Ordering tasks
6. sentence completion tasks
7. Information transfer tasks
Objective technique
(e.g. Recognition of mistakes or impropriates
words is a sentence )
PROCESS APPROACH
• FEATURES
• 1.SS do not hand their first draft
• 2.SS are not expected to finish their
writing within a certain length of time
• 3.Both the teacher and the students
can give comments and suggestion
Adopting Process App.
• Allow students to interact with each
other
• Give the students enough time to
go through the whole writing
process.
( from planning, drafting, revising to
redrafting can take up to 3 hrs)
STAGES OF CARRYING OUT
THE PROCESS APP
I Pre writing ( discussing a topic to
encourage ss to think deeply)
II Writing First draft ( can be done at
school or at home)
III Giving help on content of topic
IV Training revision skills for Content
( not focus on grammar)
V Peer editing for Content
NEXT STAGE
VI Writing the second draft ( can be done at
home)
VII Going through the language Checklist
(grammar punctuation and spelling)
VIII. Training of revision skills for language
IX. Peer editing of second draft
X. Writing of the final draft ( in class or at
home)
The good points of Process APP

• PROCESS (Writing involves planning,


drafting and revising)
• COOPERATIVE (Learners help to improve
each other)
• PEER EDITING ( Students are encourage
to edit each other’s work.
Conclusion
1.Teaching writing aims at helping students learn the
language more effectively
2. Material of teaching writing should be integrated with
those of reading lesson.
3. Use techniques that are suitable for the student’s level.
4. For SMA students, we can use several techniques:
guided to free, Communicative, and process approach.

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