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TeachingEnglish: How to teach writing

Improve your learners' writing skills by exploring the subskills that make good writers, and ways of developing them in the classroom. This course will open on 3 October – enrol now.

Child and adult happily writing
TeachingEnglish
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9–12 hours
Start: 03/10/25
End: 31/03/26
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Workbook
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How will the course help you?

By the end of How to teach writing, you'll be able to:

  • describe what's involved in the skill of writing
  • produce a process-writing framework
  • analyse what makes writing activities effective.

How can you enrol on the course?

Register for a free TeachingEnglish account or log in to your account.

Enrol on this free course

What does the course include?

  • Self-study modules that you can access at any time before the course closes
  • A certificate of achievement on successful completion of the self-study modules
  • A free workbook with extra learning content and resources connected to the course contents
  • A dedicated Facebook community of course participants with up-to-date insight, resources and innovative teaching ideas for you to try out (Facebook account required)
  • Learning content related to our courses on Facebook and YouTube
  • Live events and recordings with course tutors and language teaching experts on Facebook and YouTube

What are the self-study modules?

Module 1 – Understanding writing

The aim of this module is to provide an understanding of the skill of writing and what's involved in the process. During this module you'll learn through doing; you'll need to write so that you can analyse and understand the process. Be prepared with a notepad and pen, or an online document to write on.

Module 2 – Engaging with writing – process writing

The aim of this module is to provide a process writing framework for use with learners in the classroom. The module identifies pre-writing techniques and provides practical knowledge of drafting, editing and publishing of written work. You'll have the opportunity to produce a piece of writing using a process writing framework.

Module 3 – Engaging with writing – activities

The aim of this module is to analyse what makes writing activities effective and to give practice in preparing them. The module identifies sub-skills that lead to good writing. You'll evaluate whether activities focus on accuracy of language or communication of meaning, and also consider how to select appropriate methodology and resources for introducing and practising specific areas of writing.

Course reviews

What have other teachers said about how How to teach writing helped them?

"Before this course, I don't spend much time for idea generation in my writing classes. After the course, I have learned that generating ideas before the students start their writing can help them to motivate and have fun in their writing process. So I planned many activities for generating ideas and my classes become more engaging."

Course participant, Myanmar

"I used to teach writing by using only an example of diary, letter or story. Now I know many other ways of how to teach writing and will use it on my lessons."

Course participant, Kazakhstan

"I have better understood the difference between product and process writing and I have included the "generating ideas" activities in my lesson plan as a strategy for team work"

Course participant, Colombia

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Submitted by AmiraFawzy on Fri, 09/27/2024 - 09:16

i have enrolled the course and i have studied module one .Now my portfolio is not shown and i cannot access the course to continue

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Submitted by eieaindra on Fri, 09/27/2024 - 05:56

Hi! I am having some issues in enrollment of this course every time I log in. I don't see the enroll button and I have done module one. I would like to know if it would be possible to restore my account as well.
Thanks in advance

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Submitted by Fatmaalzahraaibrahim on Fri, 09/27/2024 - 04:47

Good morning,
I have enrolled , but I can't find the 'My portfolio' tab to access the course. Kindly help!

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Submitted by Ohnmar May Soe on Fri, 09/27/2024 - 04:45

Good morning. I have finished two modules and downloaded all the resources. Today, when I logged in, I couldn't find my portfolio. And when I clicked "My Courses", only the whitish page appeared with no data showing on the screen. Please help me so that I could make it in time. Thank you very much in advance!

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Submitted by Kathykyawhan on Thu, 09/26/2024 - 13:11

I can't find "Portfolio" tab and that's why I can't continue my lesson. Could you please help me finding the way to keep in track?

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Submitted by CL-333 on Thu, 09/26/2024 - 09:18

Hi, I met the same problem that I have enrolled lesson, but I can't find the tab to access the course right now.
Your help will be highly appreciated!
Claire

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Hi. I have enrolled in the course. But a few days ago, the internet exploded. I haven't studied a single module yet. Now that the line is fine, I can't find the course when I go to the web to study in a few days. What do you think I should do? Kindly help me.

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Submitted by Theinthtet on Thu, 09/26/2024 - 05:06

I have found the difficulties in not seeing portfolio tab, on top of that, I only left to finish module 3, but it is not the same as the previous module. They do not bring me to the course details section to study. So please help me to address those issues before the course date over.

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Submitted by Su-Thet-Khaing on Thu, 09/26/2024 - 04:36

Hello! I had the same problem, I can't find the option of "my portfolio and m courses" in the menu?

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Please, help me. I joined "how to teach writing " but I can't find my protfolio.

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