Welcome to second language academic writing!
Purpose and Objective
The purpose of this site is to encourage and help beginning secondary school teachers, who have just graduated from NIE, to implement the use of ICT tools in their writing classrooms. The objective is to get beginning teachers to explore and think about how second language academic writing can be taught in relevance to the modern world.
Our group of writers has brought insight to this by giving our own personal evaluations and insights into the different aspects of teaching academic writing in Singapore, as shown in our individual essays. We have also generated lesson plans and a guide on giving student feedback as examples to show how an ICT-based lesson can be conducted using the recommended strategies mentioned in our essay discussions. Useful links to ICT teaching tools and resources are also provided to aid beginning teachers in creating future writing lesson plans. Teachers are free to tweak the lesson ideas in accordance to the individual needs of their students and their different abilities.
The suggested activities and lesson ideas can also be implemented in similar classroom cultures from different countries such as in Hong Kong or within Asia.
Our group of writers has brought insight to this by giving our own personal evaluations and insights into the different aspects of teaching academic writing in Singapore, as shown in our individual essays. We have also generated lesson plans and a guide on giving student feedback as examples to show how an ICT-based lesson can be conducted using the recommended strategies mentioned in our essay discussions. Useful links to ICT teaching tools and resources are also provided to aid beginning teachers in creating future writing lesson plans. Teachers are free to tweak the lesson ideas in accordance to the individual needs of their students and their different abilities.
The suggested activities and lesson ideas can also be implemented in similar classroom cultures from different countries such as in Hong Kong or within Asia.