Review

Designing L2 Writing Tasks

1. Planning lessons in terms of activity sets allows instructors to

create coherently linked vocabulary, grammatical and pragmatic exercises.

assess students' ability to complete the main writing task.

foster creative writing in their learners by prompting new ideas.

all of the above

2. Pre-writing tasks should

be assigned as homework to make classroom time more efficient.

be learner generated (groups are responsible for generating lexicon, grammar, pragmatics, etc.)

prepare learners for all aspects of a final productive task.

be strictly sequenced to prevent student frustration with language and task.

3. The process approach to writing means that

students have to revise their work based on teacher feedback.

there are multiple, recursive steps to writing.

students' work is published to make writing more motivating.

students collaborate with peers to complete written assignments.

Design a writing task that would allow students to write collaborative projects either in or out of the classroom setting. What would be some potential benefits of such an assignment? Share your ideas with your fellow students and/or teachers.
Examine a writing assignment you have recently given your students and answer the following questions:
- What is the learning objective? (writing, vocabulary, reading, etc.)
- What are the sub-skills needed to complete the task?
- What pre-writing activities can help students prepare to complete the task?
- If you were to teach this activity, what guidelines/materials would you give the students during the writing task?
- What are some post-writing activities you could use?