Madares Al Ghad Teaching Writing skills

Aims To raise participants’ awareness of the mechanical, emotional and linguistic elements of writing To provide and analyse models for motivating writing tasks attending to different elements of writing

Teaching writing skills What problems do your students have with writing? Mechanical Cognitive/Affective Linguistic

Problems Mechanical Cognitive/Affective Linguistic  Holding the pencil/pen  Letter formation  Writing from left to right  Writing on the line  Word spacing  Anxiety  Lack of ideas  Don’t know how to plan  Bored by task  Demotivated by teacher’s red pen  Lack of confidence  Capital vs small letters  Punctuation  Word order  Paragraphing  Coherence  Grammar, vocabulary  Style  Register

Teaching writing skills What things do we have to take into consideration when dealing with writing tasks?

Task How can you make writing more ‘real’ in the classroom?