CURRICULAR THREAD 4

WRITING
Can be defined as...

Highly cognitive and metacognitive intellectual act which

takes into consideration a plethora of pre-requisites.
 Intention of author

Desire to communicate
and share ideas

Knowledge of
vocabulary
PRE-REQUISITES
Tex types
organization of it

Identification and
understanding

Ability to manipulate
the writing code.
CURRICULAR THREAD 4:
WRITING

*Initial Literacy

*Text Production
INITIAL LITERACY
 LITERACY

The ability, confidence and

willingness to engage with
language to acquire,
construct and communicate
meaning in all aspects of
daily living.

The access to ICT, literacy

skills have become a part of
many learners’ context not
only at school but at home
as well.
 Problematic even Writing is less
INITIAL
in one's first natural tan
LITERACY is because
language. speaking

Complicate The learner has to

literacy not only construct meaning
in L1 but also in from the the written
L2 word in context.
 FACTORS THAT
INFLUENCE THE INITIAL
LITERACY L2

1.- The nature of the 2.- The learner’s 3.- The learner’s
written forms of the previous experience in knowledge of the
first language. L1 literacy. foreign language.

4.- The learner’s age.

 The natural
process of
learning
one’s first
language

Means that as
another
language is
encountered,

The brain
attempts to
apply what
about L1 by
looking for
familiar cues.
TEXT PRODUCTION