Supporting Writing

What is good writing? Good writing is effective writing Writing is context dependent - situation - purpose - audience - writer’s position - genre Matsuda, 2015 [PPT]

What is good writing instruction? Produces good writers, not just good writing Enables students to use writing to respond to a variety of situations Helps students develop language and genre knowledge Matsuda, 2015 [PPT}

Writing Project Stages Contextualization Planning Drafting Feedback Revising Editing Sharing Assessment Matsuda, 2015 [PPT]

Contextualization  Set up a realistic context for writing Situation Purpose Audience Writer’s position Genre  Motivate the students Matsuda, 2015 [PPT]

Planning Understand the context of writing Design an appropriate response Consider issues and questions Collect information through - reflection - research Organize ideas Consider the logistics Matsuda, 2015 [PPT]

Drafting Generate text Discover what you know and think Assess current plans and resources Develop new plans and resources Matsuda, 2015 [PPT]

Feedback Self-assessment Develop and critical distance Become more aware and deliberate Peer feedback Get a second opinion Raise language and writing awareness Teacher feedback Receive “expert” feedback Check self and peer feedback Matsuda, 2015 [PPT]

Revising and Editing Global and Local Changes - Global: revising - Local: editing An on-going process - assess - plan - implement Matsuda, 2015 [PPT]

Assessment Assessment by - Self - Peer - Teacher - Intended audience Matsuda, 2015 [PPT]

Supporting writing Strategy - generating topics, outlining, drafting Pace - smaller tasks at first - early feedback before longer writing tasks Analysis - exposure to models Context - course requirements; assessment scheme Engagement - feedback/support throughout the stages of writing

Supporting Writing Language Structure Support Genre SupportVocabulary support Sample Text Students’ Text

Supporting Writing 1.What instructions would make the task clear? 2.What support would you provide?

Writing skills and sub-skills  What skills are needed to write? Having a range of vocabulary Using conventions correctly Using a range of sentence structures Linking ideas Developing and organizing content Getting the mechanics and grammar right

Writing Problems Language accuracy Poorly developed writing skills and sub-skills Motivation issues Worries about feedback Task design

Writing Skills and Sub-skills Paraphrasing and summarizing Referencing

Paraphrasing exercise 1.Put students in pairs, A and B 2.Give the As one text and the Bs a different text of similar length. 3.Each student makes notes about their text 4.Students switch notes (NOT texts) 5.Students rewrite texts from the notes 6.Students then compare texts to ensure nothing important has been left out

The use of turnitin

Common Mistakes in Writing

Bibliography Alberich, J. (2013 July 27). CLIL: a brief introduction. [video file]. Retrieved from Bentley, K. (2010). The TKT course: CLIL module. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Bertaux, P., Coonan, C.M. Frigols-Martin, M.J., Mehiso. P. (2009). The CLIL teachers’ competences grid. Retrieved from Bradbury, D. (2015). CLIL Workshop. [PowerPoint slides]. Bradbury, D. (2012). CLIL Workshop for BINUS UNIVERSITY [PowerPoint slides]. British Council (n.d.). CLIL: a lesson framework. Retrieved from lesson-frameworkhttp:// lesson-framework Cambridge University press ELT (2010 Nov 11). David Marsch on CLIL. [video file]. Retrieved from Coonan, C.M. (2013 Oct 29). The role of CLIL teachers. [video file]. Retrieved from Coyle, D., Hood, P., & Marsh, D. (2010). Content and Language Integrated Learning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Crawford, A., Saul, W., Mathews, S. & Makinster, J. (2005). Teaching and learning strategies for the thinking classroom. NY: The International Debate Education Association. CRLTatUMichigan. (2009 May 1). Deborah Ball: engaging students in large classes. Retrieved from Dale, L. & Tanner, R. (2012). CLIL Activities: a resource for subjects and language teachers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Matsuda, P.K. (2015). A writing workshop for teachers. [PowerPoint slides]. Matsuda, P.K. (2015). Teaching and Assessing English Writing in the Multilingual Contexts [PowerPoint slides]. Richards, J. (2013). Curriculum approaches in language teaching: forward, central, backward design. Retrieved from University of Leon (2014 Dec 29). Teaching resources and evaluation tools to implement CLIL in the university. Retrieved from