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asesinocerebral
Costa Rica

friends help me to answer this question
 
if you need to teach students how to write in English, what technique will you choose and why. give examples.

27 Apr 2010      





libertybelle
United States

That is one of the first things we learn at Teacher �s College.

If you want to teach your students to write, they have to have a vocabulary, can read and spell.

If they are young learners - start with easy reading so they get acquainted with English words, what they mean and how they sound.
Sing songs.  Write the songs on the blackboard and let them copy them.

Think back to when you learned to write in your language. You could speak and probably read first.  It �s important to do things in the right order.

27 Apr 2010     



L. habach
Morocco

You can use
sequencing: ask your students to put a jumbled paragraph in the correct order.
parallel writing: give your students a piece of writing with specific questions (content,
                          structure, connectors, tenses ...)then ask them to write using the same  
                          outline.
brainstorming: ask your SS as many questions as you can to give them/ or elicit from them
                        ideas to be used in their writings.
give them topics they are interested in at the beginning.
encourage them to read as much as possible.
             Good Luck
 

27 Apr 2010     



Carla Horne
United States

Try very simple dictation after you have taught them some vocabulary.

Carla

27 Apr 2010