Theme 13: Writing

Question 1

Writing

Answer 1

language skill where learners produce language through
written texts

Question 2

Most used forms for assessment

Answer 2

Letters, essays, stories, reports, and reviews.

Question 3

Letters

Answer 3

The components of letters are an address, date, opening greeting, and paragraphs which each have a main point, a closing greeting, and a signature.

Question 4

Essays

Answer 4

introductory paragraph, supporting paragraphs
highlighting main points and examples; and a concluding paragraph that sums up the essay. In this kind of text, the language should be formal.

Question 5

story

Answer 5

kids must learn descriptive adjectives,
adverbs, direct speech, quoting what the characters say, and knowledge of past tenses.

Question 6

Report

Answer 6

It must include an introduction, the purpose of the report, the findings of the topic, and a conclusion or recommendation.

Question 7

several types of writing,

Answer 7

Descriptive ,Narrative, expository, Reflective, Persuasive, Interpretative, Personal Public and institutional, Creative

Question 8

Narrative writing

Answer 8

for sequencing of events, is commonly used in
fiction

Question 9

expository writing

Answer 9

the composer must organize thoughts linguistically
to explain a subject

Question 10

Interpretative

Answer 10

to rewrite other people’s ideas to make
them more understandable to the reader

Question 11

Brown (2001) explains the following seven characteristics

Answer 11

. Permanence, . Production Time, Distance, Orthography, Complexity, Vocabulary

Question 12

classroom writing performance

Answer 12

academic, vocational, and
personal pieces of text

Question 13

Brown (2001) suggests the five following:

Answer 13

imitative / Writing down, Intensive / controlled, . Self-writing, Display writing, . Real writing

Question 14

Imitative / Writing down

Answer 14

This type of activity includes dictation and the aim is to help students to get familiar with the characteristics of writing that were described before.

Question 15

Intensive / controlled

Answer 15

Teachers may choose a text and ask students to replace some
parts of it. Another way to do it is to provide texts with blanks to be completed with multiple-choice or open options.

Question 16

. Self-writing

Answer 16

This is useful in classes or informative meetings. The kid takes notes of what the lecturer, teachers, informers, and others are saying, so they can recall
details of the information received.

Question 17

Display writing

Answer 17

This type is used by students in short answers, essays, research reports,
and others that will be read by teachers.