This document summarizes Jeremy Harmer's book "How to Teach English" and provides guidance on teaching writing. It discusses that writing is important for language development and reinforces visual and mental skills. Teachers should consider students' interests and abilities when assigning writing tasks. Writing sequences should start simply and become more complex, from elementary to advanced levels. Teachers are advised to correct writing by having students self-correct or using symbols rather than red ink, and to accommodate different handwriting styles when possible. The document also notes that writing fits well into the "Engage, Study, Activate" teaching model and can promote literature and journaling.

1. How to teach writing
PAULA JIMÉNEZ AND LAURA BURBANO R.
SUMMARY OF JEREMY HARMER’S BOOK “HOW TO TEACH ENGLISH”

2. Why teach writing?
 Reinforcement:
Visual.
How everything fix
together.
Coherence. Concient understanding.

3. Why teaching writing?
Mental
process
Mental
activity
Learning
experience.
Language development:

4. Why teach writing?
 Learning styles.
Slower
process
Writing
Faster
Process

5. Why teach writing?
Gramatics.
Basic
language
Skills.
Paragraphs
Writing
special
conventions.
PunctuantionStructure
Paragraphs.

6. What kind of writing should students
do?
Level.
Interests
Age.
Motivate
them.
Find general
or similar
interests.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. How should teacher correct writing?
Don’t correct in red ink and underlining.
Avoid “over correction”.
AVOID.

10. How should teachers correct writing?
We can have them correcting
their own work.
Written symbols.
Write a comment.

11. Written symbols.

12. Written symbols.

13. Written symbols.

14. 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.

15. How does writing fit into ESA?
Engage. Study. Activate.
Promote
literature.
Promote the
use of a
journal.

16. “There is no limit to
the kind of texts we
can ask students to
write.”

17. Thanks!