Chapter 7 Literacy Instruction for English-Language Development

In this chapter, writer is talking about the reading and writing process. Writing is still difficult task for me. As a EFL(English as a Foreign Language) learner, many other people will have same difficulties as me.
When we need to write, it is hard to find out materials what should we write. Therefore, the author says students need a real reason for writing, such as a letter exchange with a pen pal( Diaz-Rico, 2008, p. 193).
The first step of writing process is prewriting. Diaz-Rico (2008) has stated that prewriting helps students not only to build a representation of the topic about which they are writing, but the challenges, prompts, and questions from collaborators also help to fashion a working representation of the assignment or task. The second step of writing is “Drafting” (p. 196). In this step, writers do the best they can in spelling, vocabulary, and syntax, without a concern for accuracy. The drafted writing can be revised by self-correction and revision (p.197). Also students can give one another feedback through formal “sharing” meetings organized by the teacher (p. 197). To make use of distance learning for young adult learners, Janet Raskin developed a noncredit writing course for the commercial website Englishtown.com. I visited this website and found that it is very useful source for speaking as well as writing. I would like to attend seven days free tutorial course.