TEFL 02.02.2021
Writing
differentiation:
– personal writing (email, whatsapp, expressing views and opinions)
– creative writing ( fiction: poems, stories etc.)
– pragmatic writing in everyday situations
Vygotski:
Writing is difficult (for children) as it involves a „double abstraction process“
1. the first abstraction involves the conversion of sounds, intonations and expressions of oral
speech to text on paper
2. the second abstraction involves „a conversation with a white piece of paper“ / the lack of an
„interlocutor“
teaching writing:
GB and US: teach writing with:
– phonics instruction (alphabetisierung: Betonung, aussprache etc.)
– Whole language approach (ganzheitlich)
– Emergent Reading and Wiriting (“Spracherfahrungsdidaktik”: whole class in English)
Germany:
– controversy in primary EFL education
- to write or not to write
– phoneme-Grapheme-Relation in English
Phoneme: smallest meaning- distinguish unit of a language
Grapheme: In this case seen as the letter(s) representing the phoneme
– course book for primary school: more and more writing
– course books for sec. School: pick up already existing knowledge and start with the training
of writing
Developing writing competence
Writing
differentiation:
– personal writing (email, whatsapp, expressing views and opinions)
– creative writing ( fiction: poems, stories etc.)
– pragmatic writing in everyday situations
Vygotski:
Writing is difficult (for children) as it involves a „double abstraction process“
1. the first abstraction involves the conversion of sounds, intonations and expressions of oral
speech to text on paper
2. the second abstraction involves „a conversation with a white piece of paper“ / the lack of an
„interlocutor“
teaching writing:
GB and US: teach writing with:
– phonics instruction (alphabetisierung: Betonung, aussprache etc.)
– Whole language approach (ganzheitlich)
– Emergent Reading and Wiriting (“Spracherfahrungsdidaktik”: whole class in English)
Germany:
– controversy in primary EFL education
- to write or not to write
– phoneme-Grapheme-Relation in English
Phoneme: smallest meaning- distinguish unit of a language
Grapheme: In this case seen as the letter(s) representing the phoneme
– course book for primary school: more and more writing
– course books for sec. School: pick up already existing knowledge and start with the training
of writing
Developing writing competence
