This document discusses various approaches to teaching writing skills. It covers topics like the writing process, genres, creative writing, and writing as a cooperative activity. It emphasizes that teaching writing involves considering skills like handwriting, spelling, layout, and punctuation. The teacher plays important roles as a motivator, providing resources and feedback. Different writing activities can build writing habits or practice specific skills. Portfolios and journals are also discussed. The conclusion stresses that teaching writing requires considering many factors.
2. Writing as a skill
(how to write certain
purpose)
Reinforcement
(language construct)
Why teaching writing?
Learning style
(reflective interpersonal
activity)
Language development
(construct proper
written text)
4. Approaches to student writing
Process
and
product
Roles of
the teacher
Writing for
learning
and writing
for writing
genre
Creative
writing
Building
the
writing
habit
Writing as a
cooperative
activity
7. Genre
Genre represent the norms
of different kinds of writing
A genre approach is
especially appropriate for
students of English for
specific purposes
9. Writing as a cooperative activity
Cooperative writing works well whether the focus is on
writing process
Reviewing and evaluation are greatly enhanced by
having more than one person
Not only for writing, but research, discussion, peer
evaluation etc.
11. Writing for learning and writing for
writing
Writing for learning : is a kind of writing we do to help
the students learn language or to test them on that
language
Writing for writing : is to build students writing skill
12. The roles of the teacher
motivator resource
Feedback
provider
13. Writing lesson sequences
Some activities are about the nut and bolts of writing
Some are designed to build the writing habit
Some are designed to give students practice in the
writing skill
15. Conclusion
Teaching writing is not a simple way in process where
as a teacher we have to consider about many things
such as: the handwriting, spelling, layout and
punctuation.
Some approaches that the writer have to know in
writing: process and product, genre, creative writing,
writing as a cooperative activity, building the writing
habit
16. Bibliography
Harmer, Jeremy 2007, How to Teach English 2nd
edition, Pearson Education Ltd
Harmer, Jeremy2010, the Practice of English Language
Teaching 4th edition, Pearson Education Ltd
Agustin, Helena GENRE ENGLISH TEXT TYPES
hagustien@yahoo.com.
EFL How to Teach Writing
http://eflclassroom.ning.com