Week 4 - "Collect - Organise - Share. 
                 The possibilities are endless."
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This week's readings introduced us to a lengthy list  of  social networks, EFL sites and blogs, all tackling the proper development of all four skills in the classroom in order to enable students become independent English users.

The course content this week was abundant in very useful information  and a brief listing of it is worth reviewing:

"the five finger method"

The sociocostuctivist view of education. Process writing involves a close, authentic social bonding betwen the writer and his readers.
Inside the classroom, the discourse genres need to serve the learners outside communicative needs.

The stages of the writing process the teacher should always consider when planning lessons: brainstorming, pre-writing,drafting, revising, asking for feedback and using assessment rubrics.

Students need to be exposed to written models in order to be able to identify the various features of different genres, i.e. persuasive, expository or narrative texts.

Blogs, wikis and podcasts are great instances of social networking which promote the process approach to writing in the classroom.

The English teacher's qualities: flexible, adaptable, practical, supportive and abread of the online latest developments.




See you all next week!
Rolanda
Romania