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- 1. LEARNING TO LEARN TRAININGPROGRAM LEVEL 7 Writing
- 2. OBJECTIVES To helpyou realize the place of Writing in the process of learning a language and the skills involved in it. To make you aware of the different strategies that may be used to practice Writing.
- 3. Activity They say that good listeners become good speakers, and good readers become good writers. Explain how this works, how is this possible and/or logical? Think about a few specific things that you could probably improve in your writing by working on your reading. Ask around: your classmates, teachers, tutors, other people.
- 4. Discuss the following: Writing is a complex skill. It involves many different aspects. When you write in your own language you are not always aware of all the things your mind considers in order to produce a piece of writing. When you write in a different language you have to make a conscious effort to prepare, oversee and evaluate what you are writing.
- 5. Activity How many different things can you think of that are involved in producing a piece of writing? What are the CLEAR, FLUENT AND EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION aspects your OF IDEAS mind considers every time you write something?
- 6. Compare your answersand discuss: SYNTAX CONTENT Sentence structure, Relevance, Sentence boundaries, Clarity Stylistic choices, etc. Originality, Logic, etc. GRAMMAR Rules for verbs, THE WRITER’S Agreement, PROCESS Articles, Getting ideas, Pronouns, etc. Getting started, Writing drafts, CLEAR, FLUENT MECHANICS Revising AND EFFECTIVE Handwriting, COMMUNICATION Spelling, OF IDEAS AUDIENCE Punctuation, etc. The reader(s) ORGANIZATION Paragraphs, Topic and support, PURPOSE WORD Cohesion and unity The reason for writing CHOICE Vocabulary, Idiom, tone
- 7. Think about this: Ifthere are so many aspects to consider how do we ever write anything? We can write because we follow steps in a process and we do it in stages. Good writing is basically done following three easy steps: Pre-writing Writing Post-writing
- 8. The writing process PRE-WRITING Thinking Discussing Free-writing Gathering Organizing WRITING Organizing Writing Editing POST-WRITING Editing Proofreading
- 9. Activity How many of these aspects in the three basic steps do you already follow? Which ones do you think you could incorporate to your writing process next time you write something? Re-write something you had already written, this time follow all the steps in the process. Compare it to the previous text. How are they different?
- 10. Think about this: Nobody was born knowing how to write. You have probably been writing in your own language for a long time, and that still does not guarantee that you are good at writing. People need practice to become good at something: including writing. One way to practice writing is to do writing practice in stages.
- 11. Stages in writingpractice Think about they way you started producing pieces of writing in your own language, what were the first things that you did? Then what? And now? The stages go from: Copying, Controlled writing, Guided writing, to Free writing.
- 12. Activity: To improve your writing skills practice activities for each one of the four different stages. Little by little upgrade the level of difficulty of the activities you use and practice, practice, practice. Next you will find some suggestions for activities you can do for each stage.
- 13. Writing activities bystages Copying Controlled Guided writing Free writing writing •Straight copying. •Dictation. •Stimulus- •From situations •Copying with •Writing from response, from provided. sentence grammar practice. pictures, stories, •From opinion. combination. •Cloze summaries comics, etc. •From fact or •Copying with from readings. •Following fiction. some •Question models. •From a title. transformation of sequences that •From a provided the information. result in outline. summary. •From a provided •Parallel writing. situation. •From oral cues provided.