Teaching writing

What are the two types of focus in teaching writing?

• Procedure and Practice

• Planning and Drafting

• Genre and Cooperative

• Process and Product

Which focus of teaching writing is defined? "It pays attention to the various stages that any piece of writing goes through.”

• Product

• Process

• Procedure

• Practice

Which is the correct order for process writing?

• Planning, drafting, editing, final product

• Drafting, planning, editing, final product

• Planning, editing, drafting, final product

• There is no strict order, the writing process is recursive

Which is NOT a step of genre-writing?

• product pride

• self-discovery

• data collection

• imitating given style

Which term is NOT connected to creative writing?

• self-discovery

• product pride

• imaginative themes

• impersonal writing

Which statement is false? To build the writing habit ...

• students must be given enjoyable tasks

• students must be provided with a wide range of ideas

• students must receive information on the expected langugae

• students must be shown models of the expected genre

Which term is NOT connected to cooperative writing?

• language biography

• peer inspiration

• broad research

• effective editing

Which one is false? Before a writing task the teacher must....

• give them enough information about the task

• make sure that they have enough of the right kind of language to do the task

• do a speaking task

• give students examples/ideas

If we want to build the students’ writing skills we give them ……………… tasks.

• Writing for writing

• Writing for learning

Students are usually less enthusiastic when it comes to a writing tasks.

• True

• False