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Date Posted: 17:59:27 10/04/09 Sun
Author: Flaviane
Subject: Re: One Question
In reply to: Mirandes 's message, "Re: One Question" on 13:11:42 10/03/09 Sat

After to explan this symbols to my students, they could regonize them in my corrections, it was much easier and fast for me to correct their writings. With this method, they, themselves, can find and correct their mistakes. Very useful!

>Dear friends,
>
>I found this topic very interesting, as well as your
>comments. I don't consider myself experienced in
>English teaching, since I've been working in a
>different area for years, and regarding to this I've
>been kind of procrastinating… After this course, I
>think it's time to go back to class and share some
>knowledge with others. When I read Antonio's post I
>remembered the time I've been enrolled in an
>e-learning English school, where the student's
>productions could not be reported in real time.
>Instead, the writing couch used to send me feedback
>messages containing the texts I produced with writing
>editing remarks, I mean, using the table of symbols
>Antonio mentioned. At that time, as a learner, I
>really enjoyed this method, as I could rewrite or
>embellish the text and submit it again. The results
>were always very positive.
>
>I guess many of you have already created your own
>table of symbols, but in case of not having it yet,
>this is the one I got familiarized with… It's just an
>example:
>
>Writing Editing Remarks
>
>AG=agreement (I AM, she IS)
>AR=article (a, an, the)
>C=capitalisation
>CO=combine sentences
>D=delete
>EX=expression or idiom
>I(x)=insert x
>MW=missing word
>NS=new sentence
>NSW=no such word
>PH=phraseology
>PL=plural
>PO=possessive
>PR=preposition
>PS=part of speech
>PU=punctuation
>SI=singular
>SP=spelling
>VT=verb tense
>WO=word order
>WW=wrong word
>x>>y=change from x to y

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Re: One Question -- Renata Ferreira, 13:28:01 10/08/09 Thu