MATERIALS FOR

DEVELOPING WRITING
SKILLS
PRESENTED BY: Sally Mar Kara-an  & Jocelyn Malubay

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Materials for Developing
Writing Skills

Materials, along with the teaching

methodologies serve as the interface
between teaching and learning, the
point at which the needs, objectives,
and syllabi become tangible for both
teacher and students.  
 Roles of Materials in Writing
Instruction

1. Model

   - provide good examples of the target

genre and demonstrates its distinctive
features (lexical, grammatical and
rhetorical)

   - Must be relevant and authentic

 Roles of Materials in Writing
Instruction

2. Language Scaff olding

   - Provides opportunities for discussion,

guided writing, analysis, and manipulation of
target structures and vocabulary, 

   - Grammar should be taught inductively(top-

down) 

   - Grammar as resource for producing text

Roles of Materials in
Writing Instruction

3. Reference
   - Reference Provides
explanations and
examples of relevant
forms.
Roles of Materials in Writing
Instruction

4. Stimulus 
    - Encourages learners to
think about and use language.
 Selecting Writing
Materials
A. Ask:

1. What is the profi ciency of my

students?

2. Why are they learning English? 

3. What texts will they need to

write in their social, academic, and
workplace contexts?

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 Selecting Writing
Materials
B. Determine the text types to
which the students need to be
familiar:

    - Emails 
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    - Reports 

    - Narratives 

    - Persuasives
 Textbook as Writing Material
"Teaching writing is primarily a local and complex endeavor
which defi es being packaged into a single textbook.

  Consider the textbook's local relevance (i.e., suitability to the

needs of the students, teachers, curricula) 

 Remember the fi ve methods of adapting materials: adding,

deleting, modifying, simplifying, reordering.
The Internet 
Some of the many advantages: 

 off ers access to an abundance of authentic materials 

 encourages collaborative research and writing projects 

 provides access to dictionaries, corpora, and reference aids  

 provides opportunities for student written communication

and dissemination of their work to a wider audience

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 Representative Resources for
Teachers and Students
• Dave's Internet Cafe ( www.eslcafe.com)

• BBC English (www.bbc.co.uk /worldser vice /learningenglish /)

• Writing Centers' Online Discussion Community

(lists.uwosh.edu /mailman /listinfo /wcenter)  

• WPA-L: Writing Program Administration (www.wpacouncil.org /wpa-l)  

• Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue (owl.english.purdue.edu)

• Using English (www.usingenglish.com)  

• ESL Gold (www.eslgold.com /writing)

• Blackboard, Moodle, etc.

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Creating Writing Materials
Recommendation

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participating in leaning heavily on

materials-writing teams existing materials
Model for Materials Design
(Hutchison and Waters 1987)

• Four key components:  

       A. Input (text that provides stimulus for

thought, context and purpose for writing,
opportunities to use and build on prior knowledge,
etc.) 

       B. Content Focus (topics, situations, and

information for meaningful communication)
Model for Materials Design
(Hutchison and Waters 1987)

C. Language Focus (opportunities for text analysis and

integration of new knowledge)  

D. Task (culminating communicative activity and writing

assignment)
Using the Input Text
• model to highlight genre features and
context 

• foundation for building content schemata

and initiating writing through extensive
reading and discussion (focus on
comprehension, reflection, engagement)
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REFERENCES:

Masood, A citeseerx.ist.psu.edu /viewdoc /download?doi=

10.1.1.837.7694&rep=rep1&type   

Tomlinson, B http://www.iltec.pt /pdf/Principles%20and%20

Procedures%20of%20Materials%20Developm ent%20Paper.pdf

 https://prezi.com /jtxdjtmoi-va /materials-for- developing-

writing-skills-ken-hyland /

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