Teaching Writing Techniques

Chapter # 5

TECHNIQUES IN USING
ALL LANGUAGE SKILLS.

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TOPICS TO BE DISCUSSED
 BRAINSTORMING
 GUIDED DISCUSSION
 INTERVIEWS
THE AIM IS TO
 SKITS
 DICTATION
IMPROVE ALL
 NOTE TAKING LANGUAGE SKILLS
 STORY TELLING

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1. BRAINSTORMING (Collecting Ideas)

 Individual/ Group Activity (Small Groups)

 Teacher avoids monitoring flaws

 Teacher as a helper (Words Or Structures)

 Preceded by students talk/ writing

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To illustrate (Students think what’s going on in this picture)

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1. Thought process improves

2. Speaking and listening (comprehension) improves

3. Writing improves

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2. GUIDED DISCUSSION (Students’ thoughts are aimed at specific points)

The teacher guides groups or the whole class

to talk about sth keeping specific points in
consideration.
e.g. Students talk about the picture as per the given points:

1. Greetings
2. Request to play the game
3. Acceptance with pleasure
4. Vocabs n sentences
are practised
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Another example (The students predict how this game started, what conversation took
place)

1. Use present tense

2. Use past tense

3. Present progressive

4. Perfect tense etc.

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1. Thought process improves

2. Speaking and listening (comprehension) improves

3. Writing improves

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3. INTERVIEW (good to know each other)

1. Useful for a new class

2. Students transmit genuine information

procedure
 The Teacher helps elementary students
 Advanced learners create their questions
themselves

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As an example
 Name
 Class
 Nationality
 Favorite subject
 Favorite movie
 Favorite sports
 Favorite teacher

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1. Thought process improves

2. Speaking and listening (comprehension) improves

3. The communication is natural

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4. SKITS (A short humorous performance OR piece of writing)

 Group or class activity

 The students play other people’s roles

 One of them reports it as an outsider

by writing/ speaking

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For example (The students play these roles and one of them reports it)

1. Class after results

2. Group of advertisers…..

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1. Thought process improves

2. Speaking and listening (comprehension) improves

3. Writing improves

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5. DICTATION (Read slowly, broken into meaningful segments)

o The teacher reads, students listen to it carefully

o The teacher reads more slowly, students write
o The teacher reads for the last time and the students
check their work
Other forms:
 Dictogloss  AC—introduced in the end of a lesson
 Dicto-comp read all the way through 3 times, not
broken into segments followed by students’
collaboration
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An illustration

o A passage from their text-book

o A newspaper article

o A piece from a magazine

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1. Listening (comprehension) improves

2. writing improves

3. knowledge improves

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6. NOTE TAKING (To pick up the important information)

 The teacher reads a useful piece (syllabus/

current events)
 Radio or tape recorder is also a useful resource

procedure
 Provide skeleton outline to elementary students
 Advanced learners listen to long passage and
take notes

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1. Listening (comprehension) improves

2. writing improves

3. knowledge improves

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7. STORY TELLING (Arouses curiosity –what happened next)

 People like to listen to it

 They can’t wait to pass it on

1. Detective stories

2. TV serials…..

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FOR INSTANCE
1. The teacher reads a useful resource
2. He stops where students know how to continue
3. Students n teacher continue the story on their
own and share their continuation
4. Students correct each other’s work
5. The teacher helps correct everyone

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1. Listening (comprehension) improves

2. writing improves

3. Speaking improves

4. Reading improves

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Thank you!

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