This presentation is about methodes of teaching english to young learners provided with detailed description and activities and general background of Writing as a process.
3. • Writing is the fourth skill of the main
four language skills:
Listening
Speaking
Reading
Writing
4. • "Writing" is the process of using symbols
(letters of the alphabet, punctuation and
spaces) to communicate thoughts and
ideas in a readable form.
5. • Frazier(2013) argues that to be able to write in english, student
must have a basic foundation and understanding of the spoken
language. They must know how to write alphabetical and some
basic sentenses pattern to begin a good hand. Also the skills that
are helping students to write such as listening, speaking and
reading as part of the prewriting steps.
6. • Writing in a foreign language is difficult. It presupposes of a
number of language areas such as spelling, grammar, and
vocabulary, as well as skills like handwrting and punctuation.
7. • This is why writing is usually not a favourite activity with young
learners.
• On the other hand a good teacher should require some startegies
in order to help students effectivelly develop their skills.
8. WHY TEACH THEM WRITING ?
• Writing is as vital a skill to literacy as reading, but is often not
treated as such. We know that by reading we become better
writers, but what is too frequently ignored is that the reverse is
also true.
9. • Writing allows students a means of processing and reflecting on their life
experiences—experiences that are already so rich with vocabulary and
meaning. It provides them with a way to practice using words they have
read, or maybe words they have only ever heard spoken. By giving
children the opportunity to tell their stories and express their thoughts, we
help them develop their own unique and confident writer’s voice.
10. • Many young learners will not have fully developed their own L1 writing
skills, and these strategies may not necessarily transfer to writing in
English.
• Writing allows young learners to practise new vocabulary and structures.
• It allows for a high degree of personalisation and creativity.
• It provides young learners to take risks and try out new language, with
more “thinking time.”
• Writing skills equip young learners with a solid base for future
development and learning.
• A focus on writing tasks in the classroom creates variety and caters for
different learning styles
11. • Teachers can diagnose learners’ strengths and areas to develop
in terms of vocabulary, structure, spelling etc.
• Focusing on this area can instil the joy of writing from an early
age
12. HOW TO TEACH WRITING TO
YOUNG LEARNERS:
• One of the biggest challenges teachers have faced in the
classroom has to do with writing. A teacher must put into
consideration different aspects:
13. Pay attention to the writing process by providing apportunities for learners
to brain storm, plan and draft. Remember that young laerners will perhaps
not use these stategies yet even in their own langueage. Many of them
maybe class or group activities, which can make writing a less lonely
process.
14. The teacher also should be selectif at the level of topic choice and choose
topics which the children can relate to in their own experience, for example
it is better to write aboute the playground rather than the bank.
Use pictures to stimulate comments and discussion:
15. Some of the first recognizable pictures that most children draw are
pictures of themselves and their family. If they have pets, they often like
to draw them. Favorite places, like houses and landscapes with the sun,
are also among the first things that children like to draw. Therefore, as
you prepare your young students for writing activities, primarily focus on
having them draw these types of pictures.
16. Help students write down what they have said: For young writers, this
often means that you will do much of the writing at the very beginning.
You write down the sentences that your students use to describe their
pictures. Then you can have the students trace the sight words or the
key vocabulary. As the children develop more ability and confidence in
their writing, they can start writing the descriptions on their own under
their picture.
17. • The main goal of this step in writing is to encourage and
capitalize on the natural interest that children have in describing
what they see.
18. ACTIVITIES:
1. Make sentences from random
words: the teacher hear can
give student a table with
random words and ask them to
make a meaningful sentenses.
20. TIPS TO ENCOURAGE YOUNG
LEARNERS TO WRITE
• Make writing meaningful. Young writers can express themselves about topics that are
important to them.
• Invite young writers to write freely, without worrying about correctness. Children who are just
learning to write can build language structures and expression, even if they use imaginary
spellings and strange punctuation.
• Ask young learners to write about their own lives and experiences. Whether it’s a holiday, or
their experience with their grandparents, or any other experience outside the classroom,
young writers write best when they write about something they know well.
• Engage young writers in short bursts of writing. For children under the ages of eight or nine,
it’s very tiring to hold a pencil or piece of chalk, shape the letters, and remain focused on the
message to be communicated. Writing often, for brief periods, is much more effective than
trying to write for a long period of time.
21. CONCLUSION
• Writing, in any language, can be so much fun! It’s exciting to
send messages and letters to people in a language that they
understand. Everyone enjoys describing events in their lives,
talking about pictures and places, and sharing their thoughts and
ideas. Many also like to create stories and songs, too! So,
supported by the fact that young learners are not very influenced
by writing as it needs more attension and grammatical abilities ,
how can we, as teachers, help our ELT students develop this
type of enthusiasm for sharing and writing in English ?
