Sunday, December 8, 2013

EAL-Teaching and Learning of Writing


     It is very difficult to explain teaching and learning of writing. That's why our observation not enough to explain something about it. And also the third day of our observation we had an interview with 6th grade, so we were not in classroom. But I will try to explain it.
      I want to write about learning of writing. Our observation classroom was actually good at writing English. The 5th grades wrote their daily routine as a poem, it needs good understanding and writing skills. Maybe, this was their homework or just once, but with this homework they can understand it more easily and permanently. The 6th grades wrote a small dialog about "progressive dinner" on their own. First, they had to create a dialog with their own words. Then they had to write it right form. So, they must be good at on writing. According to my observation, I found out that students wrote something almost all lessons. It was not matter, how they wrote or where they wrote. Sometimes they were listening something and then filled in the blanks or they created their own sentences and paragraphs.
       Now I want to write about teaching of writing. Our practice teacher did not write so many times on board. She generally spoke English or gave worksheet to students. But once, she wrote on board shopping words to teach the students the words. She wrote almost all kinds of shopping name on board, then the students wrote down whole words their notebook. Sometimes, especially when students could not understand the words, first she said in Danish, then she wrote it on board in English.
       As a conclusion, students’ ability of writing is really good. Students' learning ability of writing is improving with homework and worksheets. Teaching of writing was not using more than I am guessing, just unknown words or new words. But when we look at the students' writing skills they are totally good at.

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