Module 8 - Teaching Writing

 

Teaching writing is often about teaching grammar. If grammar comes up anywhere in EFL, it is in the writing classroom.

 

Most EFL students will have some writing skills when you get them and they will often have an idea that their writing skills are quite good. Unfortunately, they will very often be quite poor.

 

In fact, they often will have quite poor writing skills even at the sentence level. Therefore, you will need to take them back to sentence level and begin to teach them very basic structure and how to write simply. Run-on and fragmented sentences will be very common until you correct those errors.

 

The more basic you get with your writing students, the better.

 

Once a good foundation is built, you can move on to basic paragraph writing and on to essays. These skills take time to develop though and you will find that most textbooks will move your students forward too quickly.

 

Read and review these links:

 

General Writing Concerns. Look around this website a bit. It is an excellent resource.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/index.html

 

Sentence Writing Skills

http://www.stackthedeck.com/tips-getting.html

 

Teaching Sentence Fluency

http://www.kimskorner4teachertalk.com/writing/sixtrait/sentencefluency/menu.html

 

Two excellent EFL writing manuscripts are available to you as a part of this course. Download them and read them and you will see exactly how to go about teaching basic writing skills to EFL students.

 

Sentence Writing Manuscript - Good for your students to use.

http://teflebooks.com/SentenceWriting.pdf

 

 

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