Design of Composition Class for Intermediate-advanced Learner

Abstract

How should teachers design "composition" classes for intermediate to advanced learners? Recently many models, methods and materials have been proposed for them. However it is not very clear how the teacher should choose them depending on the learners' condition. According to psychological models of writing, division of learners' attention is important. Through composition classes, learners learn to control dividing their limited attention resource to their weak points in the writing process. Teachers should consciously design classwork to assist them to resolve this problem. Learners' experience of writing papers in their first language and their knowledge about sentence-paragraph writing may be the points of teacher's decision making.