Teaching Writing Skills for Exam Classes

Our five-module Teaching Writing Skills for Exam Classes course is suitable for teachers who are engaged in helping students write in English more fluently and accurately.

It is particularly relevant to teachers of examinations classes such as FCE and CAE, and also to teachers of English for academic purposes.

Course content

Course content includes:

• Approaches to writing: process, product and genre
• Paragraphing and sentence types
• Punctuation
• Coherence
• Cohesion
• Correction of written work

This is a very practical course in which you will be asked to experiment in your classroom with the ideas and materials provided on the course then report your findings to your fellow course participants and peers for discussion and evaluation.

Start dates

The next start dates for this course are as follows:

• October 20 -- December 12 (8 weeks)
• January 19 2009 -- March 13 (8 weeks)
• March 16 2009 -- May 8 (8 weeks)

Given the nature of online courses, although we recommend you to begin on the start date given, it is possible for "late starters" to catch up quite quickly, within the first module of the course.

Note that courses will not begin unless there is a minimum of four participants.

Length & time commitment

It is notoriously difficult to predict exactly how many hours an online course will take any given student. For our courses, we believe you should estimate at least minimum 2.5 hours per module for the reading and completion of the tasks set, giving around 25 hours minimum for this particular course.

That estimate excludes the amount of class time you use for experimenting with the ideas and material from the course.

You should aim to complete each course module within 7 to 10 days.

Your tutors

The course tutors are all International House Barcelona CELTA and/or DELTA course tutors with many years of teaching and teacher training experience.

Course fees

€90

There is a 10% discount for those who have followed a prior Teacher Training course at IH Barcelona.

Certification

Candidates will be awarded an International House Barcelona Online Training Certificate at the end of the course.

Application

To apply for a place on the course, fill in the online form.

If you prefer, you can download the application form as Word document or pdf file.

Note that no payment is required until you have been accepted for a place.

For payment details, see separate page.

Online teacher training courses from IH Barcelona

Courses currently available:

• Common European Framework (CEF)
• Foundation TEFL course
• Language Analysis for English Teachers
• Teaching English pronunciation
• Teaching Knowledge Test (TKT)
• Teaching Vocabulary
• Teaching Writing Skills for Exam Classes
• Teaching Young Learners