KOTESOL International Conference 2016
(Concurrent Session)
David William Sansom, Macao Polytechnic Institute
Paper, Pencil, and Practice: Developing Students' In-class English Writing
Abstract
Getting students writing English in the classroom can be challenging for teachers who may have neither the time nor the resources available, yet in-class writing lets teachers find out what students can and cannot do, and provides valuable focused practice on structures and sentence patterns, as well as opportunities for error correction. This workshop will demonstrate how to make and run interesting, motivating and challenging writing activities for students with just blank paper and pens, and how the teacher can provide feedback to students with a pencil. Participants will experience a range of sentence-level writing activities 'hands on', share ideas for adapting and extending these for their own students, and will come away with writing activities that are effective and immediately usable.
Biographicals
David William Sansom is an experienced EFL teacher and teacher trainer working in the Macao Polytechnic Institute. He has a PhD in teacher education (research on how professional development changes inservice EFL teachers' beliefs and classroom practice), an MA in writing, and the DELTA. He enjoys helping students improve their written English, making in-class writing fun while meeting learning needs, and regularly works with teachers to develop and share resources and techniques for teaching English writing. As well as Macao, David has lived and worked in the UK (where he originally comes from), France, Saudi Arabia and China.
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