teaching esl writing skills

... paragraph writing, they can and should tbe allowed to write longer forms of writing The Teaching of Writing, Integrated with Other Skills The most common problem that confronts teachers of a Writing ... and effective materials Writing for writing sake is a drag, and produces boring output The lesson plan presented here, by combining the teaching of writing with other skills, allows students ... student's article, thereby increasing work twice as much Teaching the set of skills of summarizing, outlining, reacting to a posted article using writing as a medium helps Japanese college students...

Ngày tải lên: 06/09/2013, 05:10

... 16:59 Page 13 Unit 1: Teaching writing Guidance on the teaching of writing skills History 13 DCELLS G.O.T Unit 1:Foundation Phase 2008 (E) 18/3/10 16:59 Page 14 Unit Teaching writing Aim: To explain ... piece of writing There is, however, a danger that the teaching of writing can easily be reduced to teaching by correction – teaching after the event – instead of teaching at the point of writing ... the teaching of writing skills 18/3/10 16:59 Page 38 DCELLS G.O.T Unit 3:Foundation Phase 2008 (E) 18/3/10 17:01 Page 39 Unit 3: Shared writing and guided writing Guidance on the teaching of writing...

Ngày tải lên: 10/03/2014, 05:20

... essays /writing tasks required of students in ESL/ EAP writing courses are distinct from those in courses in the disciplines? If you were in charge of the curriculum in preparatory ESL writing ... instruction can help NNS writers improve these skills? What are the most common forms of academic writing assignments? How can a teacher in an ESL or EAP writing course help students prepare for these ... practice, producing academic writing is actually relatively easy THE IMPORTANCE OF LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY FOR WRITING In the production of academic writing, various L2 skills have divergent degrees...

Ngày tải lên: 17/10/2013, 19:15

... vocabulary in L2 writing contributes significantly to the higher evaluations of the quality of L2 academic writing In light of this finding, it is not particularly surprising that NS student writing usually ... technique for teaching writing, was originally created for NS students who wrote in their L1 and were more socially and culturally open to the idea of reading and responding to their classmates' writing ... students strongly preferred that teachers' correct their errors in writing Thus, an important consideration in teaching L2 academic writing is not whether to correct textual errors and help students...

Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2013, 10:15

... their L2 writing skills, the greatest portion of the work that, in fact, represents language learning has to take the form of homework The learning of many L2 academic skills, such as writing, ... TLFeBOOK TEACHING LANGUAGE FEATURES OF ACADEMIC WRITING 55 more effective than memorizing and practicing vocabulary, practicing grammar structures in writing, producing large amounts of academic writing, ... opinion, why some methodologies for teaching ESL emphasize and others deemphasize the importance of explicit grammar and vocabulary teaching? If you were to design L2 writing courses for intermediate...

Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2013, 10:15

... likelihood, it may be the last (or second to last) formal ESL writing class the majority of the students will ever take ATTENDANT WRITING CONCEPTS AND SKILLS (REMEDIAL, AS NEEDED) High-Intermediate Proficiency ... TEACHING LANGUAGE FEATURES OF ACADEMIC WRITING 59 • information synthesis from several or long readings (assigned daily as homework for to weeks, 15 to 20 total) • writing assignments ... consist of 150 to 300 pages of academic reading per week Major Writing Assignments Seven to 12 (depending on the course length) major writing assignments are based on two drafts (one per week) at...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 09:15

... academic prose4 and may not be worth the effort expended on teaching them unless one goal of the course is to improve students' conversational skills Intransitive Verb Adverbial remain on the job/at ... sentences with be-verbs, are easy to construct, many NNS writers overuse them in their academic writing (Hinkel, 2002a) One of the most common structures that follows be is the prepositional phrase ... ELEMENTS IN THE NOUN PHRASE Rigidity in the order of sentence slots can be similarly profitable for teaching elements of the noun phrase structure and the verb phrase structure Articles mark noun...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 09:15

... verb helps students check for subject-verb agreement STRATEGIES AND TACTICS FOR TEACHING AND TEACHING ACTIVITIES Teaching suggestions presented here advance in the degree of their sophistication ... errors and/or fine tune students' self-editing skills The exercises and teaching activities are designed to focus on the following sentence structure skills: • Identifying missing or incorrectly ... examples of sentence correction, see Suggestions for Teaching CHAPTER SUMMARY Rigid and predictable patterns in English syntax provide framework for teaching sentence structure by means of slots that...

Ngày tải lên: 28/10/2013, 16:15

... chapter 3, the teaching of sentence and phrase structure needs to co-occur with instruction on vocabulary and common academic collocations Using stock sentence stems in actual writing can become ... importance of gerunds and nominalizations in academic text Compound noun phrases Strategies for teaching nouns and teaching activities Most people who have learned a foreign language and attempted to use ... reading and writing assignments, fall back on the lexicon immediately accessible to them or found in the reading at hand (Johns, 1990a, 1990b; Vann et al., 1991) Although many books for teaching...

Ngày tải lên: 28/10/2013, 16:15

... particular context Constructing a list of appropriate lexical substitutions that can be used in writing does not have to be complicated A typical college-educated NS of English has a vocabulary ... in doing so they stand a chance of missing an appropriate noun or two VOCABULARY IN UNIVERSITY WRITING Research on the vocabulary range needed to write basic academic text has shown that a foundation ... vocabulary Productive vocabulary refers to the vocabulary items that learners can use in speech or writing, and passive vocabulary represents the words that learners are familiar with and understand...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2013, 11:15

... FOR TEACHING AND TEACHING ACTIVITIES Incidental learning of vocabulary (see chap for a discussion) represents the least labor-intensive way to expand vocabulary The learning goals of the teaching ... organization There are various derivations of both types that exist in only one form (e.g., reading, writing, teaching, learning, hoping or culture, moisture, revolution, possibility, probability} Traditionally, ... courses Although teaching the uses of gerunds and abstract nominalizations is not particularly exciting, these structures are essential for the development of students' academic language skills Both...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2013, 11:15

... DISCUSSION In teaching ESL to L2 university-bound students, instruction in vocabulary and grammar usually take place in courses separate from the teaching of L2 writing Why were ESL curricula ... appropriateness in pronoun use, as is the case, for example, with personal pronouns In the teaching of L2 writing in ESL/ EAP and writing/ composition courses, frequent employment of personal pronouns is often ... READINGS ABOUT ACADEMIC VOCABULARY AND VOCABULARY TEACHING Vocabulary Teaching Carter, R., & McCarthy, M (Eds.) (1988) Vocabulary and language teaching Harlow, Essex: Longman Coady, J., & Huckin,...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2013, 11:15

... conversational and colloquial tone to written academic prose—a point worth making in teaching formal academic writing Pronouns as Noun Replacements In academic essays, the use of third-person singular ... L2 writers who are pressed for time and are dealing with high demands placed on their language skills often resort to employing vocabulary immediately accessible to them Also as discussed in ... they frequently present an area of difficulty for academic L2 writers In the practical reality of writing academic text to be submitted for a grade, many it-deft structures can be avoided and replaced...

Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 14:15

... Johns, A (1991) Faculty assessment of ESL student literacy skills: Implications for writing assessment In L Hamp-Lyons (Ed.), Assessing second language writing (pp 167-180) Norwood, NJ: Ablex ... Quarterly, 20/1, 141-144 Horowitz, D (1991) ESL writing assessment: Contradictions and resolutions In L Hamp-Lyons (Ed.), Assessing second language writing (pp 71-86) Norwood, NJ: Ablex TLFeBOOK ... firstand second-person pronouns in academic writing assignments? If pronouns can make awkward noun replacements, what can be the reasons that in the teaching of writing, pronouns are often "oversold"...

Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 14:15

... (Adapted from Biber et al., 1999) TLFeBOOK TEACHING VERB TENSES AND VOICE 157 On the whole, the teaching of verb tenses and aspects in L2 academic writing needs to focus first on the meanings ... academic writing that in the long run it may be helpful and effective to address them in classroom teaching to provide L2 writers a means of correcting or preventing such errors in their own writing ... exaggerated degree of defmiteness is the fact that L2 writing employs significantly more markers of the future tense than NS college-level writing does For example, the differences in the degree...

Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 14:15

... structures, the uses of passives in real academic writing are far more complex than doing exercises in an ESL grammar textbook or filling in the blanks TLFeBOOK TEACHING VERB TENSES AND VOICE 161 The Uses ... THE ACTIVE VOICE AND THE PASSIVE VOICE IN ACADEMIC WRITING The form and grammatical derivation of passive constructions can be found in all ESL grammar books For example: The student bought the ... seldom occur in academic writing • A number of important academic verbs are not used in the progressive aspect, and these verbs need to be learned Thus, in academic writing, it may be best to...

Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 14:15

... guarantee superb writing, and that the writing of native students, like L2 writing, also varies widely in quality Samples of native students' writing can be requested from the Writing Center, ... rarely used in academic writing, and that some passive constructions are idiomatic and must be learned independently of general rules STRATEGIES AND TACTICS FOR TEACHING AND TEACHING ACTIVITIES The ... composition /writing instructor, or even individual students on campus If the teacher has access to the writing of several NS students, the best way to proceed is to collect three or four pieces of LI writing: ...

Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 14:15

... into, bring about) Because activity verbs are numerous in English, practically every ESL vocabulary and reading skills textbook incorporates at least some practice with these items Activity verbs ... Therefore, it stands to reason that these verbs are essential for students to know and use in their writing These verbs number fewer than 100, and they may not be especially difficult to learn, particularly ... divergent syntactic functions of nouns, verbs, and adjectives have to be explicitly addressed in teaching To determine whether a particular word is a noun or a verb, one needs to look around the...

Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 14:15

... (compare, calculate, recognize) The teaching of mental/emotive verbs needs to proceed judiciously Although some of the verbs in this class are relatively common in academic writing, others are hardly ... formal discourse In classroom teaching, the former can be combined with reporting verbs, and the latter should be disTLFeBOOK 190 CHAPTER couraged in L2 academic writing Both of these types of ... position challenge the argument that the claim The new findings offer (the) explanations that When teaching the uses of reporting verbs in references to sources and literature citations, it may be...

Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 14:15

... provide additional venues for learning and expanding vocabulary STRATEGIES AND TACTICS FOR TEACHING AND TEACHING ACTIVITIES The following six exercises are designed to increase students' mastery ... English derivational suffixes are less numerous than lexically abstract Greco-Latinate prefixes, teaching derived deverbal forms (e.g., compete-completiori) is comparatively easier (Sinclair & ... as well as collocational expressions and sentence examples (see the dictionary exercise in the Teaching Section of this chapter) Morphologically complex relationship verbs are a good place to...

Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 14:15