UETintroInfo&Objec

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Use of English in Teaching:

Written Language

Why is this course necessary?

What is this course about?


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Use of English in Teaching: WrittenLanguage

Why necessary?

1.Teachers must be able to write in

English for classroom purposes:- to be more confident in using English

in class

- to be good models of correct writtenand spoken English for their students

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Use of English in Teaching: WrittenLanguage

Why necessary?2. Teachers need to communicate in

English with others for professional

purposes- to interact with overseas educators or

with experts

- to exchange ideas or participate indiscussions via the internet

- to request for information or service



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Discussion 1

In country X, science teachers weretold to switch to using English to teachscience. One teacher closed herclassroom doors when she had toteach the topic of density. She did notwant her colleagues to hear her poorEnglish.

Suggest what she could write out thenight before so that she would bemore confident using English to teach

density. 4UET: Written language


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What are our aims?

In UET: Written Language, you will

aim to: Learn to write questions and

instructions to guide and assess your

students use of English in reading,writing and oral language tasks.

Write texts that serve as models forteaching purposes

Practise being aware of reader andsocial context during writing forteaching or for communicating for any

professional purpose 5UET: Written language


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How this course will be taught

Brief explanations by instructor withstudent participation

Small group discussions: responding to

texts, sharing of ideas for planning andrevising writing, constructing socialcontexts

Writing tasks, individual and collaborativewriting

Students taking responsibility for theirown learning

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Experience writing as socialactivity and thinking

You are writing an email to inviteProfessor Nathan to talk to yourEnglish class. Would you say:

During your visit to next month, kindly comeand speak to my class for 30 minutes.

Or

When you visit next month, I wonder if youwould be able to give my English class a 30-

minute talk.



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Kindly come OR I wonder if you

would

Thinking influenced by socialinteraction:Interacting with reader (professor);not a friend; must be formal, polite

Writers purpose = ask for a favour:Language must be polite (I wonderif you would); not ordering the

professor (Kindly come) Readers role: can decline or accept

Language allows R to decline (I

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What do we study in UET: WrittenLanguage? Topics:

Questions and instructions fordeveloping reading skills

Writing texts and instructions to

scaffold students writing of narratives,recounts and non-narrative texts

Writing to ask for and give information

Writing to request for service and toarrange for action



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Topics (continued):

Expressing and supporting opinion orcomment

Constructing coherent paragraphs

Writing to direct student activity andlearning

Writing responses to students work



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Assessment

Portfolio of written work (5 writingtasks, 50%)

Test (end of semester, 50%)


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