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930120-12-5598
PISMP TESL SK(1)
Teaching Grammar
Task 4: Academic Writing
The teaching of writing has long been a central element in all educational
system, and there are many, often conflicting, views of the best ways of going about it
(Tribble, 1996). For as long as languages have been taught, over the years it seemed
that writing is only a support system for learning grammar and vocabulary, rather than
as a skill in its own right. Therefore, the ways and approaches on teaching writing
should be put forward and acknowledge its importance. Based on the experience and
knowledge gained in completing Tasks 1, 2 and 3, this essay will discuss to what extend
can the knowledge on various approaches and techniques in teaching writing help
teachers in Malaysian Primary ESL classroom enhance the writing skills of their
students.
classroom. However, it has its limitations and cannot be seen as answering the needs
of all types of student. Therefore, teachers may come out with a new solution or
introduce them with other suitable approach that would be able to cater their needs.
Task 2 on the other hand gives us the opportunity to plan a writing lesson plan.
Writing lessons vary according to the phase, approach and specific aims of the lesson.
In order to plan a lesson on writing, the teacher has to determine the approach that will
be used; whether it is suitable for the learners. There are two approaches to the lesson
in vogue. One takes a controlled and guided writing or product approach. The other
takes a process approach with three basic phases which are pre-writing, writing product
and publishing (Chitravelu, 1995). Upon choosing the approach, a teacher has to
consider the pedagogical principles that are intended to be applied in the lesson. For
example, if a teacher has chosen the product approach, she may uses controlled writing
in the lesson whereby tasks provided are practice in writing error-free sentences or
paragraphs on a given topic mainly for learners with relatively little knowledge of English
to gain mastery of sentence patterns as it is the first step towards writing composition.
There are a few techniques for controlled writing namely using substitution tables,
parallel writing, question and answer, filling in blanks and dictation. Hence, it is very
important to understand the different approaches in teaching writing as each of the
approaches has different way of conducting it; depending on the objectives of the
lesson.
In a nutshell, all of the tasks and newly gained knowledge are able to help
teachers in Malaysian Primary ESL classroom enhance the writing skills of their
students. Therefore, as future teachers the introduction to the approaches to the
teaching of writing is important in order for us to be able to put them into practice which
encourages us to think about the reasons for teaching this important skill, and look for
ideas on teaching different types of writing to improve students writing skills.
Elsa Andrew Hilarion
930120-12-5598
PISMP TESL SK(1)
Teaching Grammar
Task 4: Academic Writing
Reflection
Chitravelu, H. et. al (1995). ELT Methodology Principles and Practice. Oxford Fajar Sdn.
Bhd.: Shah Alam.