Process Writing for Composition

SuccessOr

“Keeping your Head above Water”

About us and the topic we chose:

Susan Joyce, American, published author-book writer, publisher for Peel Productions, Inc.

“ Information + Imagination_______________________GREAT CREATION”

Gabriela Gaione, Uruguayan, EFL teacher, amateur writer

“Writing comes from the soul”

Why improve writing in EFL?

Evidence indicates that Ss are not getting good results in the writing skill- hence INSPECCIÓN de INGLÉS suggested this topic was critical this year

It is a requirement in all EFL syllabi

It is an academic and social need

It is a market labor need

It is an integral part of a whole education

Writing

Identifies

Writing

identifies, communicates and reminds

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Writing

Communicates and reminds

Writing

Satisfies a requirement

Writing

Promotes introspection

Writing

Communicates, recombines and allows introspection

Writing

May exemplify what is known as aesthetic creativity

Non linguistic knowledge

that we use for writing - Grabe and Kaplan reference world background knowledge memory emotion perception intention logical arrangement situation

A model of text structure -Grabe and Kaplan 1996

Fig 3.1 text structure

SURFACE DEEP

Sentential

syntax semantic

textual cohesion

L

E

X

I

C

O

N

coherence

Analysis of Writing byGrabe and Kaplan 1996

P92 4.1 Flower and Hayes- - - - writing process model

Task environment

The rhetorical problem Text produced so far

Topic

Audience

exigency

GENERATING

Planning

Organizing

Goal setting

translation

Reviewing

Evaluating

Editing

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RSVP- How to respond to SS’ writing TESOL tips Comments on the margin on content Questions in the margin on content Sum-up comments at the end of the composition

Include good news Be short Focus on one or two- taught aspects

Conference Include peer advice Use correction codes Share criteria and if possible create rubrics with your

students before the writing takes place-

Some TESOL strategies for successful writing- Copying Dictation Dictocomp Note- taking Speed writing In – class essays Form filling

ABC brainstorm- link – list -combine

Order, edit and proof-read

P 38 Grabe and KaplanSome questions to reflect upon:

What is a text? How may texts be examined as product? How may texts be analyzed as process? How may product and process be viewed as

reflecting an Interactive model? How do process and product issues embed

themselves within a coherent interpretation of wider social contexts for writing?

What types of texts do we want learners to produce? What do these issues suggest for writing instruction

in the classroom?

Bibliography & LINKS

Grabe, W. & Kaplan, R.B. Theory and Practice of Writing- An Applied Linguistics Perspective -1996 -Longman

Scarpa, S. Cursos de Sensibilización para Docentes del Plan 1996 Febrero Marzo 2001- Cuadernos de la ANEP

Snow, D. More than a Native Speaker- Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc-2006

Tribble, C. Writing 1996 Oxford University Press – Ur, P.A Course in Language Teaching 1999 Cambridge University

Press

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Thank you!

Susan and Gabriela