Developing Writing Fluency

Summary

Writing is typically the skill that most students have the most difficulty with. This webinar was designed for teachers who are looking to make the transition from General English to teaching Academic English, and who will be preparing learners for high-stakes exams such as Trinity's ISE exam, or IELTS. The presenter explored the typical writing tasks which students are asked to do in these exams, with a particular focus on ready-made frameworks to target crucial areas of grammar, and looked at how formulaic templates and circuitous discourses for academic writing can also be recycled to support speaking practice.

About the presenter

Peter O'Neill has been Teaching English in Dublin for over 20 years. He has taught all levels and is currently lecturing at EM Normandie in Business English to both undergraduate and post-graduate students who are predominantly French, while he prepares international students for both the Trinity ISE II/III exam, and IELTS at the English Language Institute where he has been teaching for the last five years. Peter is a language learner himself, and a translator. See his transversions of Baudelaire, The Enemy ( Lapwing, 2015).

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