Level 3 Writing class orientation

These handouts, based on the book, Treatment of error in second language student writing (Ferris, 2004), will help orient students in the Level 3 writing class.

There is a questionnaire about grammar knowledge, a grammar pretest, a handout for eliciting a diagnostic paragraph, and an error analysis sheet for teachers to attach to the diagnostic when returning it. This material is aimed at developing students’ self-editing skills and awareness of the main kinds of errors they make in their writing. It will give new students a general idea of what to expect later in the course, when working through drafts marked by their teacher and also provide teachers with information about students’ writing ability and understanding of how to fix errors in writing.

Here is everything in MS Word format. The files are numbered according to the sequence in which they would be used in class.

grammar questionnaire

grammar pretest

diagnostic paragraph

editing exercise