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Feedback: Thanks for running a superb course. I have really enjoyed it and am sad to see it end. I feel I have greatly benefitted from this course and your comments

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If you had problems answering any of the above, this course is for you!

The course has given me a greater feeling of confidence, fresh ideas for classroom activities, and has also provided me with the incentive to revise, update and add to my existing materials for teaching writing skills.

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Teaching Writing Skills for Exam Classes

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Course outline

Our five-week 100% online 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.

Course start dates

The next start dates for this 5-week course are as follows:

January 23rd—February 24th, 2012
April 16th—May 18th, 2012
October 22nd—November 25th, 2012

Note that courses will not begin unless there is a minimum of 10 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 3-4 hours per module for the reading and completion of the tasks set, giving around 30 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

€200.

Certification

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

Application

To reserve your place on the course, fill in the online payment and application form.

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