NovELTy September 1998 [antikvár]

Writing Tasks - fdlíAvform/to-%eL novELTy ~ rexxxL a^tícleA/ ow/ wrtfínty - bu2yynítlATEfi -H cxynfer&vuzes reg^ratíorv Tp-do lists we put together daily. Somé chores get done, others don't. Maybe at the beginning of a new school year we can still hope to accomplish all we intend to. This time, be sure to add the second item to your list today (see pages 4 to 5). As for the third, here is what we've got on offer. In the first article, Peter Grundy and Vivian Li argue that responding to student writing benefits from the process approach. They describe the advantages and disadvantages of procedures that help learners take "more responsibility for assessing their own writing" (p. 11). The second article presents six writing tasks that advanced students of English may develop. One of these, the audio tape essay, is designed to improve the quality of revision, an essential subskill in writing. Csölle Anita and Károly Krisztina give details of a study they conducted in the ELTE-Leeds research project. By providing statistical analyses of performances of secondary-school and university students in oral and written tasks, they argue that materials can be developed to target specific problems that occur in the classroom. Rounding off the section on writing are two sets of student material we have received in response to our call for submissions. ín the Voice of the Class section we print two primary-school pupils' posters and a group project by Miskolc university students. There are two more articles: one by Lugossy Réka about two young girls' encounter with narrative; the other by Kiss Csilla, who solves the problems she introduced in the last issue and adds somé more. Finally, a farewell article by Ian Marvin, former Assistant Director of the British Council Hungary, who summarizes the past four years and charts a busy but challenging period. We wish him all the best. Nikolov Marianne & Horváth József