Writing is Fun

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Writing is Fun
By Shiqi No. 1 Primary School Guihua Cai
Advisor: Lore
Brief: According to educational research, children should learn languages in stages, the earlier they start , the more they achieve. Children learn their first language in the following stages: listening, speaking, and later – usually when they go to school – reading and writing. Teaching young learners a foreign language often tries to reproduce these stages of mother tongue learning by first concentrating on listening and speaking skills and only introducing reading and writing at later stages. We usually distinguish between receptive (listening and reading) and productive skills ( speaking and writing))
Key Words: English wring, listening, speaking , and reading
In the old days , writing in English was very boring because pupils learnt it in very traditional ways, often just by copying what the teacher said without fully understanding. And in primary school, most teachers still think that that the most important skills for beginners to master are listening, speaking and reading. They do not value writing highly and usually put it last because they believe that it is the most difficult task among the four skills. It is also the most difficult for teachers to correct . Therefore teachers avoid giving writing lessons and most of the students are unmotivated and lack of interest in writing classes. It is true that  students who master the other three skills well, will eventually also learn to write well, but writing should not be something that is left behind in language lessons because the elements to enable students to write well can be developed from early on, for example by enhancing vocabulary and ideas. Teaching writing therefore should go hand in hand with teaching the other skills.
Writing is very important. What kind of writing can we expect from young learners in the early stages ?
Students can be asked to respond to short and simple texts with relevant information and ideas (including personal experiences, imaginative ideas and evaluative remarks) with the help of cues.
Students can be asked to write short and simple texts using a small range of vocabulary, sentence patterns and cohesive devices fairly appropriately with the help of cues. Some spelling and grammatical mistakes can be tolerated as long as they don’t interfere with communication .
The purpose of writing is to
1. Communicate with each other.
2. Record information which lasts over time.
3. Present information, ideas and feelings for a variety of purposes and audiences.
4. Enhance oral development and reinforce the language structures and vocabulary that learners have acquired
5. Develop students’ communication skills.
6. Demonstrate one’s creativity and critical thinking.
7. Inform, influence and entertain others.
Writing in English lessons can be fun. Learners need to be provided with task-based writing activities at all the four stages of the development of writing skills: copying, controlled writing, guided writing and independent writing. But how to give a writing class that is fun and how to teach pupils creative thinking techniques? “A comfortable and resourceful teaching environment is very important for initiating creativity. And more important is teachers should provide students with a pressure-free, harmonic, free and encouraging environment so that students will be able to express freely. In developing students’ creativity, teachers should allow mistakes.”
Here are some activities for developing writing skills.
Copying is the easiest stage. Such as listing about their group members’ favorite toys and their prices from a drawing of the display window of a toyshop.
 
Group members Favorite toys price
Tim toy cars 5 yuan
  
  
  
Arranging jumbled words into the right order to work out the sequence of a story.
(   ) Dee gets up quickly and says : “Oh, it is too late.”
(   ) It is 9:00 in the morning.
(   ) But the school door is closed. There is nobody here.
(   ) He puts on his school uniform and goes out without breakfast.
(   ) He rides his bike to school in a high speed.
(   )Oh, it is Sunday today. Dee forgets.
Copying is good for beginners. The story is funny. It is easy for the pupils to do. And arranging it successfully can give them confidence. Therefore the students would be interested in writing and enjoying the story.
Controlled writing: The tasks mentioned here are somewhat limiting but ensure accuracy. Such as describing characteristics of familiar objects/people for others to guess. Like a riddle: We use them at home. They make cool air . They keep us cool in summer. What are they ? Keeping a record of the appearance and other information about their favorite animals. For example, this is my favorite animal. It is black and white. It lives in China only. It likes eating bamboos. What is it ? Can you guess? The pupils first read a model passage. Then they write a short paragraph according to the model passage using the same tense. Here is a model which can be adapted. Zinky’s Home. Students use the description to draw and write a postcard about their home.

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