Week 5:The New Programmatic Issues In Teaching

Key Points:

The students’ EFL writing is deeply influenced by L1 writing instruction or experience. Now there are a lot of studies to analyze the effects. In the reading “Situated Writing Practices in Foreign Language Setting”, the author selected 12 studies which were divided into 3 stages in order to highlight the relationship between the students’ perceptions and use of rhetorical patterns from L1 to L2 or L2 to L1. And we also involve combine the cognitive and social perspectives to make sense of writing in teaching.

The author of the reading “Critical Evaluation of Writing Teaching Programs in Different Foreign Language Settings” collected lots of data to show EFL writing instruction in Germany, Poland, the USA, China, Japan and Spain. In every place, pedagogical practices and teacher education are completely analyzed. Therefore some considerations for the future of FL writing instruction are proposed.

From the reading “Training for Writing or Training for Reality?” we can know that it is necessary to balance the local realities and idealistic view in the education of writing teachers. As the language teachers, we should have the new view to face it.

My Interaction Portion:

The teaching environment is totally different in every country, especially in EFL writing teaching, which is influenced by a series of factors. Mostly, the previous knowledge and education training have the deep effects.

As an EFL writing teacher, everyone is responsible to have right teaching idea or way. However, maybe some aspects can constrain their abilities. The teaching program is nearly not been changed, so teachers need to adapt themselves to teaching in order to performance better. In detail, they are supposed to be prepared to listen, learn and adapt within the contexts and dynamics of their local teaching-learning situations. What's more, they’d better grasp the chance to improve themselves, for example going abroad to experience exotic culture and environment and so on. The aim of teaching is to encourage students and make the teaching get a better result. Thereby teachers and students should make effort to have a big success.