Developing and evaluating writing of children in English language teaching

This diploma thesis is concerned with developing and evaluating writing of children in English language teaching. The theoretical part deals with writing as a natural learning process and everything that includes, for instance, what steps are needed to reach successfully a free style, the importance of error correction as well as the ways of correction and evaluation of children{\crq}s written work. It is also focused on writing in English within the Framework Educational Programme for Elementary Education. In the practical part, several concrete lessons were projected in which the ninth-grade children were led to free writing. It means that on the basis of carefully chosen and well-organized exercises young learners proceeded from controlled to free writing. From the gained written work, four from the set of semi-controlled exercises and further were chosen randomly and they were given to be evaluated by two future teachers and two experienced ones. The aim of this diploma thesis is to find out if children are able to write free written work in English within several lessons as well as how the evaluation differs from one teacher to another especially in accordance with the chosen criteria