Week 4 Workshop Summary

Hey Guys, Laura here,

This week in the workshop we discussed a great deal on the assignment. I think we all found it really helpful to compare what work we've done on it. It was really interesting to see how the people who studied the same Author interpreted the texts. In some cases the understandings we're familiar, but in others it was fairly different.

We also discussed the different types of text structures that were analysed in our readings. I found this really helpful for out first assignment because it broke down the features of each text type and identified the language features in each one.

During the tutorial we also spent also of time sharing our answers for the activity we did at home. One answer that we discussed a lot and had very similar answers was the question that asked what we would do as teachers that might help the student write more grammatically, clearly and expressively. One of our most common answers was to get the student to read out loud their own work. This way they have a chance to notice their own mistakes and correct them accordingly instead of being tole what it wrong and how to fix it.