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Chapter 11
Write or Wrong? Teaching Writing Lessons
In This Chapter
▶ Getting started
▶ Presenting a lesson
▶ Going formal or informal ▶ Offering a writing lesson
It is rather daunting to produce written work in a foreign language, but with some guidance your students can go from good sentences, to para- graphs, to texts with due attention to style and formality.
You never know just when your students may have to fall back on written communication so try to incorporate writing into your course, even if it’s just a little.In this chapter, I show you how to focus a lesson on writing skills.
Putting Pen to Paper
By the time you start getting into writing, your students should have had a chance to listen, speak and read the language to some degree. They have also copied information down, but actually writing in their own words is more of
a challenge. After all, proof of progress (or not) remains there in black and white for the world to see. So, teach your students what it takes to make a decent sentence. This will be the foundation for future written texts.
