Approaches Methods and Techniques in Teaching Writing — Şahin Gök

Writing is a problem to many of the students and teachers in our schools Every person in a society needs to some extent to write They sometimes have to fill a form write notes especially students in the school life have to prove their knowledge on the exam paper It is the same for the Turkish students of English at high schools and English departments Therefore EFL teachers should know the methods and techniques to help students write We tend to compile this book for Turkish EFL teachers since teaching a subject is more important than knowing it We have examined the most common methods in writing and discussed their advantages and disadvantages for our Turkish students of English Sometimes we have presented a model paragraph or a composition in order to better illustrate the method or technique In addition to methods of writing we have also presented the common error correction techniques for the ease of the EFL teacher Because correcting errors is a great problem for them If the language teacher does not know how to deal with this problem he may instead of encouraging discourage the learner We have also produced an error chart for the Turkish students of English by examining their composition papers Asst Prof Dr Şahin Gök Istanbul 2017 Istanbul Gelisim University School of Foreign Languages

Writing is a problem to many of the students and teachers in our schools Every person in a society needs to some extent to write They sometimes have to fill a form write notes especially students in the school life have to prove their knowledge on the exam paper It is the same for the Turkish students of English at high schools and English departments Therefore EFL teachers should know the methods and techniques to help students write We tend to compile this book for Turkish EFL teachers since teaching a subject is more important than knowing it We have examined the most common methods in writing and discussed their advantages and disadvantages for our Turkish students of English Sometimes we have presented a model paragraph or a composition in order to better illustrate the method or technique In addition to methods of writing we have also presented the common error correction techniques for the ease of the EFL teacher Because correcting errors is a great problem for them If the language teacher does not know how to deal with this problem he may instead of encouraging discourage the learner We have also produced an error chart for the Turkish students of English by examining their composition papers Asst Prof Dr Şahin Gök Istanbul 2017 Istanbul Gelisim University School of Foreign Languages