Writing is not an easy skill in languages, however; it is
not too difficult to learn. Writing competence in a foreign language tends to
be one of the most difficult skills to acquire.
The key to successful writing classes is that they are pragmatic in
nature targeting the skills required or desired by students. It is important
for the students to be personally involved with the task in order to make
learning experience much more value. The teacher should be clear with the skill
he/she is trying to develop. Next, the teacher needs to decide on which kind of
the tasks can facilitate learning of the goal. Moreover, the essential things
that teacher has to focus on are being accuracy, encouraging writing, and
producing finished products. Here are some of useful techniques of them.
First
of all, being accuracy is the heart of writing. If you make a mistake in writing, you cannot
correct it when you have already finished it. At the initial step, teaching ‘nit
and bolts’ need to be emphasized. Teacher need to give students the training
how to write the symbols and the alphabet correctly by using special lined paper
to help them. Next, teach students how to use the punctuation, explain them the
rules. On the other hand, writing process is also essential for the students
for the next steps. It helps students to think and to write more reasonably.
There are four main stages that students have to do. Firstly, planning stage is
the step that students think what they want to write and who are their
audience. They could do it by making notes. Secondly, gather the ideas from the
first stage to write roughly. Afterwards, review the draft’s error. They can
ask teacher to help. peer check, or do it themselves with the tools called ‘checklist’. Finally, finished the final version. However, writer can rethink and go back to correct
at the previous steps.
Accordingly,
many students are not enjoyable in writing much, so the teacher’s task is to make
them comfortable and enthusiastic about it. The techniques that can help students in
writing, one of them is spontaneous writing. Teacher can encourage them by
asking them to write instant sentence about someone in the class. Then pass it
around the class and identify the people in the sentences. Expanding the
sentence by using adjective, clauses and so on are a good ideas, but the
sentence they made need to make sense. Besides, the kind of activity called ‘students
writing together’ can provoke collaborative writing. There are interesting
activities that helps students write together, such as folding paper or story
circle. It helps students how to work in group.
In addition, the materials that can encourage students can be the
picture or music. These things are very useful. It depends on teacher how to
apply it appropriately.
Lastly,
producing a finished product is the step after the writing process have already
finished. Nowadays, it is the limitless of communication. There are many ways
for the students to publish or put their products on. For example, portfolio,
blog, wikis, website and so on. Portfolio is a collection of writing. They will
see their progress in writing with it. Writing journal can be used in
reflecting of their learning. Moreover, it encourages students to use real
communication. Then, their writing skill will be better. Wikis, blogs and
contacts are the useful place for correcting the error or the feedback of
writing widely. Hence, all of these are great choices to produce a finished
product. Students can learn and use it with their writing effectively
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