Bài giảng Phương pháp giảng dạy Tiếng Anh - Chapter 8: How to teach writing

Chapter 8
How to teach writing
Harmer, J. (1999). How to teach English. Longman
I. Reasons for teaching writing
Reinforcement
 Language development
 Learning style
Writing as a skill (the most important)
 Reinforcement
Some Ss requiring language orally
Others written forms as useful 
sentences using what they have 
learned
Language development
Actual process of writing
 helping Ss to learn as they go along 
Learning style
Some Ss: picking up language by looking 
& listening
Other Ss: needing time to think in 
order to produce the language in a 
slower way writing
Writing as a skill
A basic language skill
Learners 
1. some kinds of writing: letters, 
reports, advertisements
2. Some kinds of special writing 
conventions (punctuations, paragraph 
construction.)
II. Kinds of writing tasks
How to choose tasks: learners’ age, 
interests & level
Kinds of tasks: postcards, various 
kinds of letters, narrative 
compositions, reports, newspaper 
articles, advertisements or poems. 
III. Writing sequences
A) writing postcards
B) alternating dictation
C) newspaper headlines/articles
D) report writing
Read these sample lessons (page 80-84)
IV. How to correct writing
Avoiding over-correction
 Telling Ss particular kinds of 
mistakes to be corrected
 Using correction codes/symbols