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Writing sub skills

February 25, 2008 in curriculum, skills, syllabus, writing | No comments

1. Manipulating the script of the language: handwriting, spelling and punctuation.

2. Expressing grammatical [syntactic and morphological] relationships at the sentence level.

3. Expressing relationships between parts of a written text through cohesive devices [especially through grammatical devices such as noun-pronoun reference]. Read the rest of this entry »

Listening sub skills

February 25, 2008 in listening, skills | No comments

1. Deducing meaning and use of unfamiliar lexical items through understanding word formation and contextual clues in utterances and spoken text

2. Recognising and understanding phonological features of speech [especially those forms associated with supra-segmental features] Read the rest of this entry »

Writing tasks - a rough guide

February 25, 2008 in skills, writing | No comments

  • Approaching writing as a process accomplished in stages
  • Scrutinizing work more critically
  • Revising work to make it intelligible by adding, removing, substituting, and/or recombining material
  • Keeping a portfolio of work to chart progress
  • Raising awareness of different types of written texts with different purposes

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