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.

1. Compiled by
Chandra Arnida

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)

3. literacy
Handwriting
spelling
Layout and
punctuation

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

5. What are the steps?

6. The whole process

7. Genre
Genre represent the norms
of different kinds of writing
A genre approach is
especially appropriate for
students of English for
specific purposes

8. Creative Writing
poetry
stories
 plays

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.

10. Right kind
of language
Give enough
information
Building
writing
habit
Enjoyable
task
Interesting
tasks

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

14. Portfolios, journals, letters

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