Sunday  2:15 - 3:05 PM
Rose
Teaching writing in a Communicative Atmosphere 

To present the ideas related to writing it is necessary to consider a specific learning context or group of students. I've chosen my current group of students for that context (university students and graduate students in a TESOL certificate program at a Korean University). By establishing the context I can first look at the specifies of what my students do when writing and then attempt to generalize, to some extent, about what is good practice in writing and in teaching writing. For example, it seems to be important for-my students to feel that they have a clear purpose in writing, and that they are actually creating whole pieces of communication. This is something that tends to be true of all students of writing; they want to feel that they are communicating and not just writing for the teacher. Using a process approach to writing, I will discuss ways in which teachers can teach writing in a communicative atmosphere which stresses interaction from student to teacher and student to student. Especially, I will focus on giving clear, practical suggestions for activities which focus on one or more parts of the composing process.