tailieunhanh - Teaching academic ESL writing part 29

Tham khảo tài liệu 'teaching academic esl writing part 29', ngoại ngữ, toefl - ielts - toeic phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 268 CHAPTER 10 complex. In addition to embedding simple noun clauses in the subject or object position of a sentence students must be able to convert w i-question and yes no question sentences into statement format when creating noun clauses from question sentences. STRATEGIES AND TACTICS FOR TEACHING AND TEACHING ACTIVITIES The following four exercises some with extended activities are designed to help students improve their use of subordinate clauses appropriate for academic writing. 1 Reviewing the Reviewer a Students are assigned to read an article op-ed piece or book movie review. Their task is to assess the writer s position on the issue discussed in an article or evaluate the review. The first step is to identify the article writer s position conveyed in citations of the opinions and arguments of others agreement disagreement with these opinions arguments and points that the writer chooses to emphasize. In addition students focus on reporting verbs and their contextual meanings by means of which the writer s position is established. The reporting verbs and evaluative adjectives see also Suggestions for Teaching in chaps. 8 and 9 can be organized into several groups such as positive-negative supporting-rejecting or neutral. As the next step students can be asked to add their own items to supplement the lists . Positive Reporting Verbs Positive Evaluative Adjectives Negative Reporting Verbs or Negative Evaluative Adjectives . Students can work in pairs to construct the lists. Another option is to supply students with starter lists from which they can begin making their own Positive Reporting Verbs agree confirm assert Negative Reporting Verbs deny claim allege Neutral Reporting Verbs maintain demonstrate note When the lists are completed in pairs or individually students write an evaluation of the article op-ed piece or review they read or another arti-cle review. This tasks can be assigned several times throughout the term or a couple of times per week .