This article provides the two purposes for teaching writing: write to demonstrate learning and write to learn. The first, is the most popular used and is a high stake writing always counted as a part of the final grade. The second, write to learn, is less popular in the classroom and is of low
stake. Peter Elbow points out that low stake wiriting help students understand and remember the subject matter of a course. As a ESL teacher, I partiularly believe that writing to learn is the
best to use with our students because it's less stressful and easier on both teachers and students.
I found Peter Elbow's suggestios of different kinds of writing very helpful, useful. He also emphasizes that when students understand that they are being asked for two very different kinds of writing in the course, their writing will improve because of their extensive practice. I think that if we are constantly seeking for our student progress then we should provide them with alot of practice, keeping in mind that practice makes perfect. In addition to this, our students need us to guide them with a lot of patience through this slow writing process which may take up more time than what we expect.
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I also enjoyed Peter Elbow's suggestions, and the fact that he included many examples that we can use to implement in our ESL classroom, since, just like you said, this constant practice is less stressful and helps the students better develop the skills for writing.
ResponderEliminarI really liked this article and believe that writing to learn is very effective. The more we practice, the more we learn and become better at it!!
ResponderEliminarThis article relfects the need of teaching language skills beyond the English or Spanish class!
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