Using the web to enhance students writing

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Using the web to enhance students writing

• Miss Rym Zahmoul
• Mahdia Summer School
• July 2002

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To write or not to write?!

• Future
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• Lesson 4 (4th level)
• Writing poetry p22
• More than 2/3 actively voluntarily participated
• Aspect of novelty, discovery creation
• Feeling of being up-to-date
• Personalised feedback

• Lesson 12 (3rd level)
• Writing about hobbies
• Less than 1/3 effectively did the exercise
• No stimulation
• Feeling of obligation
• Learners wait for feedback from the teacher

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• Writing is mere homework to be left on the note
  book

• Writing is a free personal authentic
  experience to be shared

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Other possible writing activities

• Using Stories
• What a story!
• Chain story
• Complete the story
• Find the lie
• Anatomical aliens

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• Using Rhymes
• Writing poetry
• Getting inspiration through songs
• Easy abstraction poems

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• Writing through the news
• Celebrity interviews
• Rewrite the conversation
• Whats going on?
• Biography
• Book reports summaries

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• Writing for specific purposes
• Personal ads
• Creating online commercials
• Business letters, resumes CVs

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• Personal writings
• Mining the past
• Diaries, memoirs

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• Writing through the Net
• React to homepages
• Questions and answers pass
• Key pals
• Error correction

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Press-ups

• Prepare the activity, lab,
• Be ready to look around and interfere when needed
• Get the students type their writings themselves

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• Give the learners the freedom to deal with the
  subject
• Rise students counsciousness and sense of
  criticism
• Encourage
• Never correct before the learners co-operate and
  exchange ideas
• Set clear objectives, never let the curriculum
  behind
• Encourage the students creating their own
  portfolio

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• New meat begets a new appetite
• Proverb