ACCURACY-ORIENTED APPROACH

AIRENE DOMALAONOVELYN FLORESMARY ROSE TOCO

ACCURACY ORIENTED APPROACH

This approach stresses the importance of control in order to eliminate error from students work.

Students are taught how to write and combine various sentence types and manipulation exercises are used to give them the experience of writing connected sentence. Gradually , the amount of control is reduced and the students are asked to exercise meaningful choice.

This controlled to free approach was very much product of audiolingual period, with its emphasis on step by step learning and formal correctness. Many such schemes are carefully thought out and although no longer fashionable, they produced many useful ideas on how to guide writing (Rapp and Caramazza, 1997)

ACCURACY

STEPS THAT CAN TAKE TO MAKE WRITING

THE REAL FOCUS OF THE INSTRUCTOR’S

FEEDBACK AND ASSESSMENT

1. CONNECT THE FEEDBACK TO THE PURPOSE OF THE TASK Do assign a grade for accuracy because it plays an important in comprehensible communication, but also assign a grade for global content: clear statement of purpose, sufficient details, effective connection between ideas.

2. Teachers should act as collaborators in the writing process

Your objective should be to help students learn how to write well.

Giving a simple grade to a written assignment means that you judge that assignment.

Giving it feedback and letting students revise their written work will make your assignment be truly about writing.

3. Focus on content first, then on accuracy

This sequence will help your students view writing as genuine interpersonal communication between the author and reader(s).

Research has found that when feedback focuses on content first, the final written work is better both in content and accuracy (Semke, 1984).

4. Facilitative comments maintain students’ integrity and help keep them motivated

Instead of writing a comment like “Don’t use the subjunctive here”, ask them a question: What does the subjunctive form suggest here?

Sometimes, students intentionally flout linguistic norms for a creative, meaningful purpose.

Find out before you mark it wrong.

Negative statements will shut down your students, while clarification questions will help them express an idea more effectively.

5. Self-correction increases accuracy, linguistic gains, and productivity.

Make a few marks on the paper, then pose questions and offer facilitative comments.

This process “forces” learners to resole questions they still have and come up with the solution themselves (with peer or instructor guidance is necessary).

TYPES OF SCORING

1. Analytic ScoringIn this mode, students’ writing is evaluated based on detailed grades for elements of writing such as vocabulary, grammar, composition, or mechanics. Results are based on multiple sub-grades (e.g., 4out of 5 on vocabulary, plus 3 out of 5 on grammar plus 4 out of 5 on content, etc.)

2. Holistic ScoringHolistic Scoring results in a more general description for categories, but includes the different elements of writing implicitly or explicitly.

The result is usually a global grade, such as A, B, C, D, E.

3. Primary Trait ScoringIf the class or the assignment focuses on a particular aspect of writing, or a specific linguistic form, or the use of a certain semantic group, primary trait scoring allows the instructor and the students to focus their feedback, revisions and attention very specifically.

4 STEPS TO ENSURE

ACCURACY IN YOUR WRITTEN

COMMUNICATIONS

BY: MELINDA COPP

1. CHECK YOUR FACTS

Double check any statistics, numbers, dates, names, -especially spellings- and other facts with reliable source.

2. USE SPELL-CHECK, BUT DON’T RELY SOLELY ON IT

Running spell-check when you’re done writing is an important step up to ensure accuracy.

For example:

My spell check doesn’t pick up when I’ve left the “r” off “your”. It sees “you” and recognizes the spelling as correct , even when the

sentence reads incorrectly.

Numbers, dates, sections, and page numbers also need to be looked carefully, and ofcourse punctuation and grammar will need special attention.

3. Use a style guideA style guide is a reference that you can use to ensure style consistency in every document you produce.

For example: Using the postal abbreviations,

spelling out the whole name, or another abbreviation.

The key to using a style guide effectively is to simply choose one and stick to it –using it to check everything you write, everytime.

4. Find an objective reader Adding someone else to read your text is the best way of ensuring your intended meaning was clearly communicated to your readers.

The ideal objective reader will also know proper grammar, punctuation, and style.

Ensure accuracy everytime

You want your written materials to communicate your professionalism and expertise, so don’t let errors so fact, style inconsistencies, misspellings, or grammar mistakes hurt your image.

How to improve the accuracy of student writing BY: MAJLINDA

MIFTARI

Teaching writing is a challenging process. One of that the learners encounter mostly is accuracy. It has always been considered as the most complicated part when using it in writing classes.

Learners should be conscious that learning how to use accuracy through context will lead them to effective writing. That is writing is not just a fluency activity.

In improving accuracy of student writing:

Collect data- use questionnaires, because this can make learners express their ideas more freely about the problems they have with learning english.

Collect the questionnaires that the learners filled them in, read them and identify what the learners weaknesses are exactly and how do they want to get improved.

Discuss the issue with your students and offer them suggestions of how you could do this together.

After analyzing the data, take action about what would you change in your teaching.

Let the learners to improvise is an important process because it covers many useful aspects of teaching.

Let the learners identify kinds of sentences.

Thank you for

listening!