Lecture teaching writing

3. Production on the basis of visual supports.

• - describing the picture, photo; a fragment of a movie;
• - letter writing on the basis of a visual format-sample;
• - composition writing on the basis of the content of the text, the given pictures, questions or a scheme;
• - writing a review on the text, book, film on the basis of a format-sample.

4. Production on the basis of the language and life experience

• - letter writing;
• - composition and essay writing;
• - announcement writing;
• - writing a review on the text, book, film.

Approaches to teach writing in the EL

• There are three main approaches to teach writing in the EL:
• 1) Text-based approach;
• 2) Writer-based approach,
• 3) Genre approach;
• 4) Communicative approach.

Questions and tasks:

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• 1. Try to explain why writing presupposes is a three-phase structure.
• 2. Why is it considered that writing is a means of the EL learning?
• 3. Think about content of teaching writing at school, lyceum and college. Can you add anything to the given information?
• 4. What techniques are used for forming writing sub-skills?
• 5. What speech exercises are used for forming/developing writing skills?
• 6. What approaches are there in teaching writing? Discuss their effectiveness for teaching writing.
• 7. What writing activities do you know? Briefly describe them.
• 8. Is it necessary to teach pupils handwriting?
• 9. How much time do you usually spend on writing a presentation? Do we teach writing a presentation lyceum and college students?
• 10. What typical language errors are there in writing?
• 11. Decide what you would do before, during and after the writing stages. Think of the ways of the remedy of difficulties in writing.
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