Chapter 11

Chapter 11: Write or Wrong? Teaching Writing Lessons

Writing Lessons

In This Chapter

▶ Getting started

▶ Presenting a lesson

▶ Going formal or informal

▶ Offering a writing lesson

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t is rather daunting to produce written work in a foreign language, but

with some guidance your students can go from good sentences, to para-

graphs, to texts with due attention to style and formality.

You never know just when your students may have to fall back on written

communication so try to incorporate writing into your course, even if it’s just

a little.In this chapter, I show you how to focus a lesson on writing skills.

Putting Pen to Paper

By the time you start getting into writing, your students should have had a

chance to listen, speak and read the language to some degree. They have also

copied information down, but actually writing in their own words is more of

a challenge. After all, proof of progress (or not) remains there in black and

white for the world to see. So, teach your students what it takes to make a

decent sentence. This will be the foundation for future written texts.