Module 1: How to teach writing

Question 1: This approach is seen as the more traditional one to writing. The objective is that learners produce a piece of writing similar to a model text. Teachers may even check criteria to make sure that learners have completed the task.

• Product Approach

• Process Approach

Question 2: This approach includes three main stages: pre-writing => focusing ideas => evaluating, structuring, and editing the ideas.

• Process Approach

• Product Approach

Question 3: This approach includes collaborative activities, ideas as the starting point, emphasis on creating a text, and several drafts.

• Process Approach

• Product Approach

Question 4:  This approach starts with a model text, emphasis on the final product, individual activities, and controlled practice of the target language.

• Process Approach

• Product Approach

Question 5: _______________ practice can involve showing learners what language is expected, giving models and providing opportunities for repeated practice until they're comfortable they can produce the language in writing.

• Freer

• Controlled

Question 6: _______________  practice involves providing the opportunity for the target language to be produced but also allowing learners to make decisions about how and when to use it.

• Freer

• Controlled

Question 7: In this activity, the teacher gives each learner a piece of poster paper to write on, then sticks them on the walls and gets learners to move around and write.

• From notes to text

• Magazine article

• Gap-fill

• Collaborative writing

Question 8: In this activity, the teacher writes sentences in large text and holds up each for just a short amount of time for learners to rewrite. The students can work in groups to do this activity.

• From notes to text

• Magazine article

• Gap-fill

• Collaborative writing