Our Writing Class
The AMEP students featured in 'Our Stories' wrote a narrative, or type of story which has; an orientation (an introduction which details information about where and when the story happens), a complication (a problem or series of unexpected challenges), a series of events, a resolution (a conclusion which addresses the problems and challenges) and an evaluation (where the writer writes about his emotional reaction to the story).
The structure of narrative reflects story telling in our culture and examples of this kind of story are found in a range of contexts from movie plots, literature to everyday conversations or telling a 'yarn'. As well as improving general writing skills, communicating stories involves learning and utilising important language resources such as a range of important grammatical elements like pronoun use, cohesion and conjunction and past tenses use. Students also become familiar with the stages and generic language features of this kind of discourse through reading models and example texts. When they eventually write their final draft and publish it on the class web page they have worked through a number of stages in the process of learning to write for a specific purpose in the new language they are acquiring.
Last updated 1 October, 2009