tailieunhanh - Research report: "Using the activity in pairs and in groups to teach writing in English"

Collection of scientific reports of the best universities honor the author: 10. Nguyen Thi Tuong, Using activities in pairs and in groups to teach writing in English . English (English English) language is a western branch of the German language group in the Indo-European ), were imported to England through the languages of many peoples conquered in the 6th century. Transmitted throughout the English colonialism in the boom period of the British Empire, from the British Isles through Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, New Zealand, the United States and some English becomes "sub-language" most important and increasingly more people learn to. | ĐẠI HỌC VINH TẠP CHÍ KHQA HỌC TẬP XXXVI số 2B-2007 USING PAIR WORK AND GROUP WORK IN TEACHING ENGLISH WRITING NGUYỄN THỊ TƯỜNG a Abstract. The techniques that we covered in our writing class were centered on using pair and group work to increase active student participation. By using this method for teaching the first year students we have got many benefits in teaching and learning English writing. Therefore we would like to introduce some writing games for using pair work and group work in order to help the teachers teach English writing more effectively. I. A COMMUNICATIVE ON WRITING SKILLS Writing is an instrument of both communication and self-expression. Most people however especially when writing in a foreign or second language use it primarily to communicate with other members of their own community or the wider world. Our main task is therefore to teach effective functional writing rather than creative selfexpression. Andrew Little 1991 suggested a few initial guiding principles to note Writing should be as close as possible to genuine functional use of language as opposed to the traditional set-piece classroom composition for the eyes of the teacher only. Since people s ways of communicating information are very varied there is no single way of writing correct English. It is therefore important for students to read as widely as possible in order to become familiar with different varieties of written English. They cannot be expected to write in a style which they have never seen or read. Good writing depends on a set of specific writing skills. It does not follow automatically from good grammar and adequate vocabulary. II. BENEFITS OF USING PAIR WORK AND GROUP WORK IN TEACHING WRITING A writing game is one type of language games in which students work together in pair or small groups. Most language games are to reinforce the language already taught or acquired and to allow students to practise the language they are learning in a more interesting way. The .