A Suggestion on How to Teach Writing Using Keywords

Abstract

In this paper, I have studied writing teaching method by using keywords for academic student learner especially with sentences and paragraphs. Previous studies related to writing mainly focused on curriculum, pedagogy, and teaching guidance, so that it was difficult to find researches related to writing instruction using keywords. In fact, the most difficult part for learners when writing is writing sentences, linking sentences, writing paragraphs, and composing paragraphs. However, matters related to this cannot be taught and learned with specific rules or principles etc. Therefore, in this paper, I propose to use keywords as a way to solve these difficulties in writing. To this end, first of all I examined the concept and the conditions of keyword. And I set the hierarchical relationship as ‘keyword as hypernym’ and ‘hyponymous keyword’ by applying lexical meaning, then I examined the matters related to the priority between keywords. Because the keywords appearing in the learners’ writings were not flat and simple, but had multifaceted and somewhat complex characteristics. Furthermore, I discussed how to use these keywords in terms of sentences and paragraphs.