Nowadays, the way to teach writing is various. Based on my experienced when I have been studying in SSE is very many ways to teach writing. Especially in the third semester, I think most of subjects emphasized in writing. So, the students should have written reflective paper every week approximate for four subjects. In reflective paper itself, focus on the writer. So, it is consist of writers’ expression, opinion or suggestion.
Raimes (1991) identified four different focuses in second language writing, such as: Focus on form, Focus on the writer, Focus on the content and Focus on the reader. In my opinion, as a generation of teachers it is better if we combined all of those things. Because, when we do writing not only focus on form itself. Sometimes if we talk about writing, some of people think that writing should have good and grammatical sentences and no grammatical error. I do not really agree! But remember, for the first time when we learnt about writing, in my opinion it is better we should be start from recount text. In the recount text our students can be express what their feel into writing. For example, they can be able to write based on their experiences, like holiday, working or unforgettable moments. So, I think it is easier to make our students writing than they should only focus on grammar.
Because like I did, wrote reflective paper itself can be drill our capabilities, like how make a good sentences, how to make grammatical structure itself. Step by step it makes our knowledge about forms are good, especially when our teacher give feedback to us. It is more make me know clearly what our mistakes when we make mistakes. So, let’s try to write your reflective paper guys J.
nice explation...:)
ReplyDeleteSo, what will you do if there is student who doesn't like writing because she/he hate the rule like grammar, from or sth like that? :)
Good Reflection Desri ^^
ReplyDeleteJust a simple question, will you apply reflective journal to your students later? why?
@Win: Yeah, like I said before Win, for reflective paper itself focused on writers, so when my students doesn't like grammatical rules, fir the first time I think it doesn't matter. Because, when they try to write reflective paper, they try to express their feel. For content (grammar and structure)I think it is not my first goal. We can give feedback for their grammatical error. So, from feedback they can learn grammar too :)
ReplyDelete@Rina: Yeah of course! Because reflective paper very useful for us as a teacher candidates. Based on my experienced wrote reflective paper, it can drill my writing skill. And also reflective paper itself can be used for feedback, comment or suggestion to us as a teacher. So, that is why I will apply reflective paper my students later:)