RESPONDING, CORRECTING AND WRITING

RESPONDING, CORRECTING AND WRITING

1. WAYS OF REACTING TO Ss' WRITING

   • Teachers should intervene with
     • Editorial comment
     • Motivating suggestions
     • Language suggestions
   • Broad categories
     • Responding
       • Accuracy of
         • performance, content
         • Design of writing
         • Affective dialogue
           • between teachers and students
     • Correcting
       • Correct mistakes
         • Syntax, collocations
       • Help Ss
         • Create and edit
           • new drafts
       • Teachers' tasks
         • make suggestions
           • Ask questions
     • Teachers' roles
       • Examiner
         • Responding to ideas Ss have written
       • Assistant
         • Help Ss
       • Resources
         • Being available
           • For Ss needs
       • Editor
         • Help to
           • Rearrange pieces of writing

2. WAYS OF CORRECTING Ss' WORKS

   • Selective correction
     • It's not necessary to correct all
     • Select something specifically
       • Verb tenses
       • Punctuation
       • Word order
     • Ss need to know
       • what will be evaluated
   • Using marking scales
     • T give marks for
       • each category
         • To help Ss focus on particular areas
   • Using correction symbols
     • Encourage Ss to think
       • about the mistakes
     • T write symbols
       • so, Ss know where is the problem
   • Reformulation
     • T show Ss how
       • To write correctly
     • Useful in
       • drafting
       • Re- drafting
   • Refering Ss to a grammar book
     • Suggest Ss to consult
       • a grammar book
         • If they have problems
   • Ask me
     • Sort problems
       • Face to face
     • When it's impossible
       • Explain it on paper

3. WAYS OF RESPONDING TO Ss' WORK

   • Responding to work in progress
     • Provide suggestions and advice
       • carefully
     • Ask questions
       • To know how Ss edit
         • their work
   • Responding by written comment
     • Encouragement comments
       • will be vital and helpful
     • Help Ss to avoid mistakes
       • in the final version of writing
   • Post statements
     • Make Ss think
       • How they can improve
         • in wiriting
     • Useful in the development
       • of Ss writing ability
   • Taped comments
     • Allow them to be
       • more expansive
         • than written responses
     • Getting personal
       • and inmediate reactions
   • Electronic comments
     • Useful for Ss
       • with computers

4. PEER REVIEW

   • Encourage Ss to work
     • collaboratively
   • Less autoritarian
     • than T review
   • Encourage Ss to
     • generate ideas and plans
   • Help T to be seen as
     • collaborators
     • NOT evaluators

5. MAKING HOMEWORK USEFUL

   • Discussing homework issues
     • Topics to talk about
       • Why homework
         • Help Ss remember things
           • Work on that
         • Help T to understand
           • How well they're doing
       • Homework load
         • Get agreement from Ss
           • About how English can fit
             • into the programme
       • Appropiate homework tasks
         • Ss will be convinced
           • of the value of homeworks
       • Explain the marking criteria
         • Encourage Ss to concentrate
         • Give time to Ss
           • To correct after comments
       • Puntuality and even - handedness
         • Use all sorts of blandishments
           • to get Ss to do so

6. TANIA GINETH HERNÁNDEZ MORENOO

   • READING CHECK TEACHING WRITING

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