Lecture teaching writing

Writing as a means and purpose in ELT

• Writing to learn
• A means of engaging students with other language skills:
• 1) as a means of getting students to practice a particular language point;
• 2) as a method of testing it.
• Activities: note down new vocabulary, copy out grammar rules; write answers to reading and listening comprehension questions, to written tests.

Learning to write

• A purpose for forming/developing a writing skill.
• Practice written forms at the level of a word, sentence, structure and content organization.
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• Activities: writing a letter, report, narrative story, describing the picture, combining writing with other speech activities - writing a response to reading an article, writing an annotation to the text, etc.