Pre- and Post-instruction Compositions forUndergraduate Writing Courses

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摘要 Abstract:Languageteachersarefrequentlyconfrontedwithmultiplerolestheyhavetoplayinteachingwritingonundergraduatelevel:beinganadviser,aninstructor,asupervisor,areaderandagrader.Itisoftenhardforateachertoswitchfromoneroletoanotherandprovidestudentswithpracticable,applicableinstructions.Theconventionalpre-writingandafter-writinginstructionsareconvenientandhelpful.Oftenforstudents,concreteandspecificcommentscanhelpthemmorethanpost-writingcomments,whichleavesmoresuggestionsandhopetostudentsthanspecifichelp.Inmodeledcompositiontheteacherofferssuggestionsinthebeginning,attheend,andmosthelpfully,inthemargins.Thesespecificformsofsuggestionscancomeinbothcontentandform,andcaninvolvemacroandmicrolanguagepoints.Differentgenresofinstructionofwritingcanbemodeled.Themodelscanbegivenorally,inwriting,byelectronicandconventionalmeans.Keywords:instruction,composition,undergraduatewritingIntroductionInteachingcomposition,teacherssometimeslamentsforbeingunabletohelpwithcontentandform,withstructureaswellasexpression.Forlowerintermediatelearners,inparticular,veryfundamentalorgrammaticalaspectscanappearasveryurgentifthesemeanagoodstarting-pointtomakeprogress.Theymayexpecttheteachertoimparthisorherexperienceinplanning,formattingandoutliningthewholeprose.Theymayalsoexpecthimorhertogivetheexpertiseastotheapproachandattitudetospecialgenre,suchasEST.Tofulfillsuchademandingtasksuccessfully,itisindeednecessarytobreakthewholeprosewritingintosmallbitsandtomakeitmanageableandapproachable.Insuchcase,asingleparagraph,ratherthananentirelyessaymaybemoreusefulthanalongtextasthebasisonwhichtosetthemodels……
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出处 《教育理论与教学研究》 2011年12月(下)
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出版日期 2011年06月17日(中国期刊网平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)