UNIT 6 - WRITING

            Unit 6 is about writing. First of all, writing is the visual representation of a language. It helps students to communicate and understand how the parts of language go together Also, it is a productive skill and one of the four language skills, also it involves producing language rather than receiving it. Therefore, I may say that writing involves communicating a message by making signs on a page, "Reading is extremely interconnected to the writing process" (Erkaya, 2005; Hirvela, 2005). So, when talking about writing learners should be able to form letters and words, to join these together to make sentences. There are some text types: essays, e- mails, a post card, a diary, etc. So learners can see from this list that text types involve different kinds of writing as each text type has different characteristics. In addition, when teaching how to write we should encourage students to make a text cohesive including ideas, opinions and structures to get a clear message or paragraphs as well as the logical way of organizing information is the main point here. However, teachers sometimes works with models of text types when teaching writing and those models can make students to understand why is important the use of new vocabulary and topic sentences in a text. Therefore, most of learners find reading easier than writing because when they read they don't have to produce the languge but on the other hand, learners find speaking more difficult than writing because when they speak they have to produce a lot the languge. To sum up, I would like to teach writing my students by applying the writing process : pre-writing, drafting, revising and editing and telling them that good writers must be sure of sentence construction, spelling and punctuation, as well as style and appropriate register.

Look on these links for more information about this topic.

http://api.ning.com/files/diaImK5aKNluVb-WkA1lKKpQSItq79NnuI2oD9*w1jy-WE3x6SUre1RoAjExhl7K7GVzJ2XRO92d4vJzFjIm4jR1WBaVBwru/HowttWriting.pdf

http://www.time4writing.com/teaching-writing/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPUh9mfSqWU

     References: 

- Erkaya, Hirvela, (2005),Electronic Journal of Foreign Language Teaching

http://e-flt.nus.edu.sg/v3n22006/rev_laborda.pdf

- Spratt, M., Pulverness, A., & Williams, M. (2011). The TKT course. Ernst Klett Sprachen.