Interesting! Of course, a separate course is ideal. We didn't have
that luxury, but I believe there are people working on creating a course
at the Faculty of Education. Theresa.
Natasha Artemeva wrote:
> Thanks, Theresa. In our context second language writing is taught in
> a separate undergraduate course because many of our student do a
> concurrent CTESL program and go on to teach abroad.
>
> Natasha Artemeva, Ph. D.
> Associate Professor
> School of Linguistics and
> Language Studies
> Carleton University
> 1125 Colonel By Drive
> Ottawa, Ontario
> Canada
> K1S 5B6
>
> Tel.+1 (613) 520-2600 ext.7452
> Fax +1 (613) 520-6641
> E-mail: [log in to unmask]
> http://www.carleton.ca/slals/faculty/linguistics/artemeva.html
>
>
>
>
> Theresa Hyland wrote:
>> Hi Natasha and Graham. I'm sorry I didn't get around to responding
>> to your first call for ideas. I taught a Teaching Writing Course at
>> Western that was at the 200 level (i.e. for senior students). I
>> included much of what you have here (apart from the "teaching in the
>> workplace" which I think is very good.). I also included a unit on
>> teaching ESL students in the classroom and the different problems/
>> needs that they present to a writing instructor. Many of the
>> students I taught either went on to teach for a year or two in Korea,
>> Japan or somewhere in South America, or found themselves dealing with
>> ESL students in their high school or university classrooms, so they
>> found this a useful introduction to this kind of specialized
>> teaching. In this context we talked about plagiarism and ownership
>> of ideas; critical thinking; separation of ideas; grammar issues
>> (i.e. writing with an accent vs. clarity of message) and
>> macrological problems of organization and style. Just a thought!
>> Theresa.
>>
>> Natasha Artemeva wrote:
>>> Apologies for cross-posting
>>>
>>> We would like to thank everybody who responded to Graham's request
>>> for ideas for our new 4th-year "Teaching Writing" course.
>>> Below we have included our course description below:
>>> ************
>>> Carleton University
>>> School of Linguistics and Language Studies (SLaLS)
>>>
>>> LALS 4906: Teaching Writing in School and the Workplace
>>> Winter 2010 – Tuesday & Thursday 11:35 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
>>> Instructors: Graham Smart & Natasha Artemeva
>>>
>>> Course description
>>> This course will introduce students to current approaches to
>>> the teaching of writing. We will examine theoretically-informed
>>> methods and strategies for teaching writing in school—at the
>>> elementary, secondary, college, and university levels—as well as in
>>> workplace settings. In addition to reading and discussing published
>>> work on writing pedagogy, students will have an opportunity to apply
>>> the methods and strategies discussed to curriculum design—that is,
>>> to integrating the teaching of writing into different subject areas
>>> and disciplines. The writing assignments for the course will
>>> include short weekly responses to the readings and individual and
>>> small-group learning projects. The course will be of interest to
>>> future and current teachers, university writing tutors, workplace
>>> writing coaches and editors, and professional writing consultants.
>>> Course topics
>>> • Brief historical background on the teaching of writing in
>>> school and workplace settings.
>>> • Brief introduction to relevant socio-cultural theories of
>>> language and learning.
>>> • Teaching a process approach to writing: strategies for planning
>>> and drafting; evaluating
>>> and revising; editing.
>>> • Responding to student writing.
>>> • Assessing student writing.
>>> • Reading and writing.
>>> • Using the Internet and other digital resources for teaching
>>> writing.
>>> • Integrating the teaching of writing into different subject
>>> areas and disciplines.
>>> • Writing in the Disciplines (WID); academic writing centres.
>>> • Teaching writing in workplace settings: in-house coaching and
>>> editing; consulting.
>>>
>>> Prerequisite: The course requires third-year standing.
>>>
>>> Graham Smart – [log in to unmask] (613) 520-2600 (ext. 2000)
>>> Natasha Artemeva – [log in to unmask] (613) 520-2600
>>> (ext. 7452)
>>> *************
>>> Natasha & Graham
>>>
>>>
>>>>> Graham Smart wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We’re currently designing a^ 4th-year course here at Carleton on
>>>>>>
>>> the
>>>>>> teaching of writing. The title of the course is “Teaching
>>> Writing in
>>>>>> School and the Workplace.” Here’s our working calendar
>>> description:
>>>
>>>>>> *Course description*
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Approaches to teaching writing in elementary and secondary
>>>>>> school,
>>> in
>>>>>> university, and in the
>>>>>>
>>>>>> workplace. Discussion of writing pedagogies as viewed from
>>>>>> socio-cultural perspectives on
>>>>>>
>>>>>> language and learning. The course will be of interest to future
>>>>>>
>>> and
>>>>>> current teachers, workplace
>>>>>>
>>>>>> trainers, editors, and writing consultants.
>>>>>> *Outcomes*
>>>>>>
>>>>>> · Participants will have a broad understanding of current
>>>>>> approaches to teaching writing in school (elementary, secondary,
>>>>>> university) and workplace.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> · Participants will have had experience applying one of
>>>>>>
>>> these
>>>>>> approaches in at least one school or workplace setting.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> With this in mind, we have a couple of questions to ask you:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 1) We would like to pitch the course to students in various
>>>>>> departments here at Carleton as a good item to have on a résumé
>>>>>>
>>> for
>>>>>> someone planning to apply for teachers’ college. But of course
>>>>>> we
>>> only
>>>>>> want to make this claim if it’s reasonable. Do you think this
>>>>>>
>>> would be
>>>>>> a valid claim for us to make?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2) Do you know any ‘must-have’ readings that you would
>>> recommend?
>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks very much,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Graham and Natasha
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -------------------------------
>>>>>> Graham Smart
>>>>>> Associate Professor
>>>>>> Carleton University
>>>>>> School of Linguistics &
>>>>>> Language Studies
>>>>>> 215 Paterson Hall
>>>>>> 1125 Colonel By Drive
>>>>>> Ottawa, Ontario
>>>>>> Canada K1S 5B6
>>>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------------------------------------
>>>
>>> Natasha Artemeva, Ph.D.
>>> Associate Professor
>>> School of Linguistics and Language Studies;Carleton University
>>> 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6; Tel. +1 (613)
>>> 520-2600 ext.7452
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