TEACHING WRITING

QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION
1.What kind of writing should
students do?
2. Point out writing activities as controlled
writing and free writing- Implication
for teachers.
3. How would teachers correct
student’s written work?
4. Suggest possible techniques in
responding to students’ writing.

What kind of writing should
students do ?

According to Harmer (1995:80), the type of
writing teachers get students to do will depend
on their age, interests and level.

The writing tasks/activities include writing
postcards, letters of various kinds, filling in
forms such as job applications, writing narrative
compositions, reports, playscripts,
advertisement, or poems.

What kind of writing should students
do? (continued)

There is no limit to the kinds of text teachers can ask


Students would probably approach the task in
different way and produce a wide variety of
different paragraphs.

NOTE TO THE TEACHER
Thus the only way to correct their work would be individually,
book by book, this would be very time consuming for the
teachers.
Therefore, teachers should help students progress beyond
very controlled writing to freer paragraph writing by guiding
their writing:

Giving a short text as a model

Doing oral preparation for the writing

Writing correction

Correction is worthless if students ignore the
mistake and correction.
 Teachers have to ensure that students
understand the problem and then redraft the
passage correctly.