Teaching Writing

                Writing is one of productive language skill that must be learned by students competently. For me, it may be one of the toughest jobs a teacher faces, especially for teachers in EFL classroom. Effective teaching writing takes so much time: time to practice, time to share writing, time to revise writing, and time to respond and evaluate all of that writing. Many teachers try to avoid teaching writing as it takes a lot of time. In addition, they need to reach all target materials in the curriculum in just a short time. I’m sure in this part, teachers will be frustrated.

                But now, technology can save us. We just need to be aware with technology so it can facilitate us everything that we need with its’ application. Google, as we know, is the most popular search engine. But beside that function, Google provides many things which is very helpful for teachers. One of them is Google Drive. Teachers can use Google Drive for teaching writing media. They can ask students to do collaborative writing by evaluating each others, adding information, etc. This activity will not need to spend much time in the class as students can do it outside the class with Wi-Fi connection. Just give them a deadline to produce a specific theme writing and teachers can evaluate it online. Click this link "Google Drive Tutorial" to know how to start the collaborative writing using Google Drive.