Creating Writers in the Primary Classroom

Tandy, Miles; Howell, J. Emory

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“…However, some participants regarded the act of writing as 'drawing a picture' and with this metaphor they may refer to the mechanistic aspect of writing although they suggest that creativity is important. Tandy and Howell (2008) maintain that student need more than mechanistic skills to succeed in writing. In addition to some mechanic skills, cognitive and visual-perceptual skills are also required to write well in any writing process (Vinter & Chartrel, 2010).…”

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A Study of Metaphor for Writing Skill in EFL Contexts

Öztürk¹

2022

ELT

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To communicate effectively in any language, one needs to be competent in using four language skills; that is, reading, listening, reading, and writing- and accordingly the integrative skills instruction has come into prominence in L2 teaching. EFL teachers’ beliefs, ideas, perceptions, attitudes are known to have a significant impact on their profession. Termed as “teacher cognition” by Borg (2003), the mentioned beliefs or perceptions are not directly observable. In this study, it is argued that teachers’ perceptions about four language skills as a part of their teacher cognition will give insight to their instruction. This is a qualitative study which aims at finding out the prospective EFL teachers’ perceptions about writing skill through metaphors. The participants included the undergraduate students studying English as a foreign language at two universities, Istanbul and Amasya. The data were analyzed with the content analysis technique. The findings revealed that prospective EFL teachers had various views regarding the nature of writing. These perceptions, either positive or negative, will influence their future practices; thus, it is essential that the awareness of prospective EFL teachers should be sharpened to help learners to understand the complicated nature of writing and proceed in writing. 

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“…Learners need to be sensitive to the writing process requirements, and they need to be flexible. Performing well in terms of writing is essential but not enough to improve writing instruction and motivate learners (Tandy and Howell, 2008).…”

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A Study of Metaphor for Writing Skill in EFL Contexts

Öztürk¹

2022

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“…Working with young children, teacher should focus more on their fine motor skill during writing activities, such as how they hold pencils, handwriting speed and control the forming letter (Linse, 2005). Thus, the purpose of teaching writing for young EFL learners is within the area of mastering the Roman alphabet, copying, handwriting, spelling, and forming basic sentence (Tandy & Howell, 2008;Harmer, 2004;Loannou-Georgiou & Pavlou, 2003).…”

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“…There are three kinds of writing activities in the language classroom, namely, controlled, guided, and free activities (Tandy & Howell, 2008;Harmer, 2004;Latham, 2002). After identifying the traits of the 16 selected children storybooks, the next stage was designing writing activities for elementary school students.…”

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Making Use of Children Storybooks in Designing Writing Activities for Children Learning EFL

Ananthia

2017

Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Early Childhood Education (ICECE 2016)

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Writing is said as the most difficult skill to be taught. Teachers often simply conducted free writing activity and ask students to produce paragraphs of writing piece. Therefore, writing activity is often unachievable for Indonesian elementary school students as beginner English learners. This paper presents part of a research project on a course preparing Indonesian student teachers who were candidates of elementary school English teachers. This paper aims to share how elementary school student teachers design meaningful and fun writing activities from children storybooks. The study was conducted in 'Writing and Dictation for Elementary School' course, in an English Concentration of Elementary School Teacher Training (henceforth PGSD, Pendidikan Guru Sekolah Dasar). The project-based learning was implemented in the course. It was conducted in a whole semester, consisting of 16 meetings. The project was designing writing activities for elementary school students based on children storybooks. There were 32 of 7 th semester of PGSD students included in this study. They were asked to choose, sort, select, and analyse some children storybooks based on the characteristics of elementary school students. About 50 books were chosen, 32 books were sorted and then selected into 16 books. The books were analysed using six qualities of effective writing called "the 6+1 traits of writing". The PGSD students were then asked to design writing activities for children. Practically, the project has shown how to make use of those children books in the writing class for children learning EFL. Qualitative data analysis includes a field note, the student teachers' children storybook review and report, and the designed writing activities for elementary school students. The result of the study shows that PGSD students have demonstrated their ability to design achievable, meaningful and fun writing, from controlled, guided, to free activities for children learning English in Indonesian elementary school.

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A Metaphor Analysis of the Fifth Grade Students’ Perceptions about Writing

Erdoğan

2012

Asia-Pacific Edu Res

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Creating Writers in the Primary Classroom

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A Study of Metaphor for Writing Skill in EFL Contexts

A Study of Metaphor for Writing Skill in EFL Contexts

Making Use of Children Storybooks in Designing Writing Activities for Children Learning EFL

A Metaphor Analysis of the Fifth Grade Students’ Perceptions about Writing

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