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Students are taught how to write and combine various sentence types and manipulation exercises are used to give them the experience of writing connected sentence. Gradually , the amount of control is reduced and the students are asked to exercise meaningful choice.
This controlled to free approach was very much product of audiolingual period, with its emphasis on step by step learning and formal correctness. Many such schemes are carefully thought out and although no longer fashionable, they produced many useful ideas on how to guide writing (Rapp and Caramazza, 1997)
ACCURACY
STEPS THAT CAN TAKE TO MAKE WRITING THE REAL FOCUS OF THE INSTRUCTORS FEEDBACK AND ASSESSMENT
Giving it feedback and letting students revise their written work will make your assignment be truly about writing.
Research has found that when feedback focuses on content first, the final written work is better both in content and accuracy (Semke, 1984).
4. Facilitative comments
maINTaIN STUdeNTS INTegRITy and help keep them motivated
Instead of writing a comment like Dont use the subjunctive here, ask them a question: What does the subjunctive form suggest here?
Sometimes, students intentionally flout linguistic norms for a creative, meaningful purpose. Find out before you mark it wrong. Negative statements will shut down your students, while clarification questions will help them express an idea more effectively.
TYPES OF SCORING
1. Analytic Scoring
In this mode, students writing is evaluated based on detailed grades for elements of writing such as vocabulary, grammar, composition, or mechanics. Results are based on multiple subgrades (e.g., 4out of 5 on vocabulary, plus 3 out of 5 on grammar plus 4 out of 5 on content, etc.)
2. Holistic Scoring
Holistic Scoring results in a more general description for categories, but includes the different elements of writing implicitly or explicitly. The result is usually a global grade, such as A, B, C, D, E.
Double check any statistics, numbers, dates, names, -especially spellings- and other facts with reliable source.
My spell check doesnt pick up when Ive left the r off your. It sees you and recognizes the spelling as correct , even when the sentence reads incorrectly.
Numbers, dates, sections, and page numbers also need to be looked carefully, and ofcourse punctuation and grammar will need special attention.
For example: Using the postal abbreviations, spelling out the whole name, or another abbreviation.
The key to using a style guide effectively is to simply choose one and stick to it using it to check everything you write, everytime.
Teaching writing is a challenging process. One of that the learners encounter mostly is accuracy. It has always been considered as the most complicated part when using it in writing classes.
Learners should be conscious that learning how to use accuracy through context will lead them to effective writing. That is writing is not just a fluency activity.
In improving accuracy of student writing: Collect data - use questionnaires, because this can make learners express their ideas more freely about the problems they have with learning english.
Collect the questionnaires that the learners filled them in, read them and identify what the learners weaknesses are exactly and how do they want to get improved.
Discuss the issue with your students and offer them suggestions of how you could do this together.
After analyzing the data, take action about what would you change in your teaching.
Let the learners to improvise is an important process because it covers many useful aspects of teaching. Let the learners identify kinds of sentences.