May 21, 2007
Comments for Group 6- Teaching writing
In the introduction part, Hyde and Vicent took many theories as examples to explain what writing is, and how to write. From this, I got an important poin, that is, writing must have to link to the experience of the students.This way would provide students more stimulation and reflection about their life.
Then as to the body of the teaching, they played an act – the Star War and requested us to write a summary about the role-play. I thought the three teachers were good at acting because they performed the characters well and they made some sound effect by their tools. It was quite interesting. However, I had some suggestions for the summary part. Because our studnets might be junior or senior high school students, I regarded that if teachers could give them more guides about the writing contains, such as some key words, vocabulary or some transition words, or some useful sentence patterns, even some grammatical rules, maybe students would have done better.
What’s more, group 6 used the writing process method to teach us how to write, I considered that this was a better way to teach writing because students had more opportunities to change or share their ideas. It broke the traditional way to teach writing. Nevertheless, about the time, there was not enough time for students to rewrite.That would be a little pity.
Eventually, fot the closure, they gave us a summary about teaching writing.I thanked for their good presentation.You had a good job!
