Week 13: Writing

Teaching writing is a very complex task. This week’s reading has presented some general issues to help teachers to shape their writing classes. These issues mainly involve writing curriculum design and response or feedback to students’ writings as well as error corrections. While designing a syllabus, curricular goals, the levels of students’ writing skills, and teaching philosophy should be taken into account. These techniques, such as brainstorming, listing, clustering and free-writing, can help students to begin their writings. Feedback or response can be oral as well as written from teachers and peers. With regard to error correction, teachers can put check marks underlining errors. Besides, teachers should keep it in mind that providing all errors might overwhelm students, so they can focus on these errors that may result in miscommunication.