How I Teach My English-Language Learners to Love Writing When I started a new career as a high school English-as-a-second-language teacher in 2011, I figured I was better equipped than many teachers to help students learn to write. Ken Hyland, a professor of applied linguistics at the University of Hong Kong, argues for the use of “genre pedagogy” for second-language learners, in which students learn about text forms, rather than use of a process approach, in which students learn steps of writing. Hyland wrote in a 2007 article in the Journal of Second Language Writing that in genre pedagogy, supporting the
Some students have been quite reflective in letters. “Your book helped me to think about the rest of my life, such as how would I act if there would be a war,” wrote a student from Egypt to Skila Brown, the author of Caminar, a novel about civil war in Guatemala. Another student, from Eritrea, wrote to Ms. Brown: “Your book helped me to understand how to survive in the jungle. It gave me a message that facing a problem and dealing with it can help me to become a man.”
• Teens are more likely to complete writing assignments and write well if they see themselves as writers.
The editors of a special issue of the Journal of Second Language Writing on adolescent second-language learners published in 2011 explained that identity formation plays a major role in adolescence and can greatly influence teenagers’ interest in academics. The editors said that making progress in writing may seem impossible to teenagers who haven’t yet figured out who they are. If adolescents don’t see themselves as writers, they groan when I announce a writing assignment, and some do not finish it.
But increasingly, as my students have met authors and received positive responses to their writing from me, they have begun to see themselves as writers and feel capable of taking on writing challenges. No matter how well-designed a writing lesson is, it won’t fly with teens if they feel that having to write puts them way outside their comfort zone.
How I Teach My English-Language Learners to Love Writing When I started a new career as a high school English-as-a-second-language teacher in 2011, I figured I was better equipped than many teachers to help students learn to write. Ken Hyland, a professor of applied linguistics at the University of Hong Kong, argues for the use of “genre pedagogy” for second-language learners, in which students learn about text forms, rather than use of a process approach, in which students learn steps of writing. Hyland wrote in a 2007 article in the Journal of Second Language Writing that in genre pedagogy, supporting theSome students have been quite reflective in letters. “Your book helped me to think about the rest of my life, such as how would I act if there would be a war,” wrote a student from Egypt to Skila Brown, the author of Caminar, a novel about civil war in Guatemala. Another student, from Eritrea, wrote to Ms. Brown: “Your book helped me to understand how to survive in the jungle. It gave me a message that facing a problem and dealing with it can help me to become a man.”• Teens are more likely to complete writing assignments and write well if they see themselves as writers.The editors of a special issue of the Journal of Second Language Writing on adolescent second-language learners published in 2011 explained that identity formation plays a major role in adolescence and can greatly influence teenagers’ interest in academics. The editors said that making progress in writing may seem impossible to teenagers who haven’t yet figured out who they are. If adolescents don’t see themselves as writers, they groan when I announce a writing assignment, and some do not finish it.But increasingly, as my students have met authors and received positive responses to their writing from me, they have begun to see themselves as writers and feel capable of taking on writing challenges. No matter how well-designed a writing lesson is, it won’t fly with teens if they feel that having to write puts them way outside their comfort zone.
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