| Welcome
to this Teaching English Prose Composition Course! |
| This course investigates
the use of writing in English Language Teaching (ELT), and is based on a
number of assumptions (adapted from Hedge,
2001, pp. 8-12) |
| Assumption
1: |
Classroom
writing tasks should reflect the ultimate goal of enabling students to write
whole texts which form connected, contextualized, and appropriate pieces
of communication. |
| Assumption
2: |
Students
need opportunities to practise various forms and functions in writing and
to develop the different skills involved in producing written texts. |
| Assumption
3: |
Classroom
writing tasks need to be set up in ways that reflect the writing process
in good writers. We need to encourage our students to go through a process
of planning, organizing, composing and revising. |
| Assumption
4: |
Teachers
need to make every piece of writing fulfill some kind of communicative purpose,
either real or simulated. |
| Assumption
5: |
Marking
should use a range of activities involving students as well as teachers,
thus making revision an integral part of the process of writing. |
| Assumption
6: |
Students
need time in the classroom for writing. The teacher's task is to select
or design activities which support them through the process of producing
a piece of writing. |
| Assumption
7: |
Collaborative
writing in the classroom generates discussions and activities which encourage
an effective process of writing. |
