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The Writing Skills

Teaching of this skill should proceed through controlled, guided to free writing Function of writing:

-    reinforcing and consołidating what has been leamt orally 9 storę in leamers' minds morę easily)

-    needed for correspondence notes, essays and in situation where orał communication doesn't seem to be appropriate

-    provides" a means of indhudual and sometimes quite personal expressions"

Kinds of writing:

>    notation - graphic representation of spoken utterance

>    spelling - when "recognizable units of the foreign language are involved"

>    writing practice - morę advanced form of writing - fbe written representation of combinations of words whichmight be spoken in specific circumstances

>    composition - ideas are expressedin a coherent and cohesive wayusing specialized vocabulaiy and structure appropriate to the piece of writing.

Whv we teach writing:

-    course validity - every skill should be taught

-    skills training - for professional purposes

-    study skills - ability to make notes

-    memory - for visual leamers

-    accuracy - for practicing using structures

-    rounding up - gathering acthdties

-    transfer of skills

Prnhlems with teaching writing:

a)    strong correlation between writing skills in LI and L, who are not good writers and may have problems (or they can improve in both)

b)    correction is time consuming

c)    students unwillingness

d)    negative feedback may discourage the students

e)    solitary acthńty

Staees in process writing:

-    generating ideas (bybrainstorming, using visuals etc.)

-    focusing - deciding what you want to say

-    structuring - ordering information

-    drafting - ways of beginning and ending different stories

-    evaluating - establishing criteria

-    re-viewing