One communicates with others in various ways. People express their thoughts in language or in action. Writing is another way to express one’s thought or to communicate with other people. Writing was considered as a tool to represent knowledge or to ...
One communicates with others in various ways. People express their thoughts in language or in action. Writing is another way to express one’s thought or to communicate with other people. Writing was considered as a tool to represent knowledge or to keep memory in old days. However, writing today is believed as a social skill to communicate with others today.
Whereas the importance of writing is stressed, teaching of writing is not performed well in active classes. Although Korean students learn how to write for twelve years at their schools, experts point out that they cannot even introduce themselves well in writing. Some indicate the curriculum or the condition of classes as a problem. This study is to show the educational problems of teaching of writing. Moreover, this study will suggest detailed methods for better teaching of writing.
Chapter 2 will observe characteristics of teaching of writing and its problems. This chapter will propose the internet media as a means to solve the problems of teaching of writing. Chapter 3 will introduce characteristics of travels and blogs as a practical way to solve the problems of teaching of writing. A teaching-learning model of writing travels using blogs will be provided. Finally, based on the contents of chapter 2 and chapter 3, chapter 4 will present a teaching-learning plan with process of writing travels using blogs. This plan will be helpful for active teachers.
This study is designed to help students to write a traveler’s journal, which is a practical writing, using blogs, which is familiar to them. This experience will make students feel familiar with the writing activity itself. Writing activity should be continued even after classes. Writing classes at school should be connected to writing in daily life, and students should form the writing habit. This study is important for designing ways to have students improve their writing ability.