Teach English as a Foreign Language: Teach Yourself (Teach Yourself: Language) by Riddell David

Author:Riddell, David [Riddell, David]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9781444131666
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Published: 2012-03-23T04:00:00+00:00

Writing skills

What students need is to have specific writing skills developed. It’s not enough for the teacher to say ‘Okay, write about a country you like’. This is writing for the sake of writing, but the teacher isn’t ‘doing anything’. For the students’ writing to improve, they need to have help in particular areas. So let’s consider three different types of Writing that a student might do in the classroom – a postcard, a letter, a discursive essay. We have already said that it is rare for a student to write a postcard in English if they are sending it to their own country, but once they return home they might send postcards back to friends met when they were learning English. We will take a letter of application for a job as an example of letter writing. As for the discursive essay, (one which argues for and against a particular topic) we will assume this is for an exam class who will need to write this kind of essay.

Writing a postcard (elementary level) requires the writer to use an informal writing style, use simple linkers (e.g. but rather than on the other hand), know how to begin and end a postcard, and, arguably, to spell correctly. The writer also needs to know the type of subjects covered in a postcard (e.g. weather) and the layout including which side the name and address are written.

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