Exercise 8 Using Technology to Teach Writing Skills
Quiz
Which of the following descriptions about the content-based approach is NOT true?
The content-based approach emphasizes the content of the writing and the academic expectations placed on students.
Writing teachers who adopt this approach may use literature as a model for good writing because literature serves as rich content for language development and reflects the culture of the target language.
The content-based approach regards grammar as the paramount principle in teaching writing.
Content-based instruction can draw on subject matter to enhance language skills and develop content knowledge.
Which of the following descriptions about the form-focused approach is NOT correct?
Writing instruction focuses on sentence-level linguistic forms and controlled discourse in the form of sentence combining and controlled compositions.
The writer’s expression is viewed as more important than linguistic correctness.
Students’ attention is directed toward rhetorical forms and rhetorical organizational patterns.
Accuracy is more important than fluency.
Which of the following descriptions about the process-focused approach is NOT correct?
Writing is regarded as a recursive process, so students are encouraged to writer as many drafts as possible.
Content and student expression are viewed as more important than linguistic correctness.
This approach emphasizes learned-centered tasks in which students assume greater control over what they write, how they write it, and the evaluation of their own writing.
The instructor using this approach usually correct everything in the student's writing.
Which of the following descriptions about audience-dominated approach is NOT true?
This approach gives greater attention to the reader and reader expectations in the academic community.
In this approach, teachers typically develop theme-based lessons that practice various rhetorical forms and discourse structures and assist students in the development of academic writing skills in various essay genres.
Form and content are both emphasized.
In using this approach, the writer's authority is more emphasized.
According to Butler-Pascoe and Wiburg (2003), which one is NOT the characteristic that good content-based learning programs should have?
Stimulate critical thinking through problem-solving tasks
Use easily identifiable icons for easy navigation of the program.
Are not heavily dependent on text.
Avoid the use of combination of audio, video, and graphics in case these media distract learners’ attention.
If a web-based writing program claims that it can encourage students to write multiple drafts and that it is helpful in students’ writing process by providing writing tools, such as a grammar checker, a spell checker, a thesaurus and etc, then which approach does the program follow?
Form-focused approach
Process-focused approach
Content-based approach
Audience-dominated approach
Which of the following descriptoins is a form-focused appraoch taht a teacher uses with the computer?
A teacher uses the computer to provide interactive grammar activities to students, such as sentence combining.
A teacher uses a computer-based writing program which has Artifical Intellgience (AI) to grade students’ writings.
Teachers and students can have an easy access to authentic content materials through the use of the World Wide Web.
None of the above
Which one describes the way a teacher uses the computer to teach writing with a content-based appraoch?
A teacher uses the computer to provide interactive grammar activities to students, such as sentence combining.
A teacher uses a computer-based writing program which has Artifical Intellgience (AI) to grade students’ writings.
Teachers and students can have an easy access to authentic content materials through the use of the World Wide Web.