From task preparation to a suggested correction code, our Teaching writing poster gives you lots of helpful ideas to use in the classroom when setting writing tasks for your learners.
Getting students to participate in writing activities in class can be an arduous task. Despite our best efforts as teachers to make the prospect of writing a fun and collaborative activity, it is often met with groans of reluctance.
If you think taking tests is difficult then you should try writing them! Writing a good test is indeed quite a challenge and one that takes patience, experience and a degree of trial and error.
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This article is about bringing some energy and excitement to the process of writing in the classroom. It's about how to create a writing environment that is 'authentic' and purposeful.
Writing, like all other aspects of language, is communicative. Think about what we write in real life. We write e-mails, lists, notes, covering letters, reports, curriculums, assignments, essays perhaps if we study.
