Principles to Consider When Choosing Materials for Writing Tasks
- 1. DONE BY: AISHAH NURFITRI BINTI ABDUL MUHAIMIN (A151292) PRINCIPLES OR STEPS TO CONSIDER WHEN CHOOSING MATERIALS FOR WRITING TASKS GGGV3324 TEACHING WRITING IN AN ESL CONTEXT
- 2. • Teacher should check whether the materials are suitable with students’ level of knowledge • Good materials will lead to good writing development process. 1. MATERIALS SHOULD SUIT WITH STUDENTS’ LEVEL OF KNOWLEDGE
- 3. • The materials chosen must relate to reading and writing. • Reading and writing are like one set, it compliments each other. The more the students read, the better they write. • Reading will enhance students’ vocabs, sentence structures and therefore they will be able to love writing. 2. CONNECT READING AND WRITING
- 4. • Materials chosen in setting writing tasks must reflect back to the teaching objectives. • By realising the teaching objectives, teacher will be able to know the effectiveness of materials used to improve students’ writing development. 3. MATERIALS SHOULD REFLECT ON THE TEACHING OBJECTIVES
- 5. • Students will be interested to write if they are influenced by attractive teaching materials. • Attractive materials must be picked wisely by the teacher so it would adhere to students’ needs in writing process. 4. MATERIALS SHOULD BE ATTRACTIVE
- 6. • Students will not feel bored if the materials used to improve the quality of writing are flexible. For example, teacher may use pictures for the first class and videos for the next class. • Flexible materials allow teacher to have options in using them in the classroom. 5. MATERIALS SHOULD BE FLEXIBLE
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