Teaching Productive Skills to the Students: a secondary Level Scenario

2.7.15 Teaching Punctuation 
 
To be able to write with correct punctuation is an important skill. Very often we 
are judged by the quality of what is written. If capital letters, commas, paragraphs 
bounders, full stops are not used correctly in our writing, we can make a negative 
impression and our writing can be easil
y misunderstood. “If we want our students to be 
good writers in English we need to teach them how to use punctuation conventions 
correctly.” (Harmer, 2004, 49) It means to teach the system of writing at all types of 
schools. 
 
2.7.16 Fluency or Accuracy
 
When writing, we have to distinguish between accuracy and fluency. Writing 
accurately involves spelling correctly, forming letters correctly, writing legibly, using 
correct pronunciation, using correct layouts and choosing the right vocabulary. We also 
have to use grammar correctly, joining sentences correctly and using paragraphs 
correctly. 
As it was mentioned earlier, when we write we communicate a message.To 
c
ommunicate a message means: e.g. express somebody‟s experience, respond to 
greeting or invitation. Therefore we can state, that both accuracy and fluency are very 
important in writing and while teaching it we have to strongly focus on both of them. The 
goal of a language teacher is to enable students to produce fluent, understandable, 
accurate and appropriate written English. But this is a hard work for English teachers. 

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Chapter 3 
 
Research Methodology 
This chapter gives an overview of the research design, and research instrument 
used to conduct the entire research. First there will be a discussion on the instruments 
of the datacollection and later the data collection procedure will be explained.