Introduction to Teaching Writing

This TEFL certificate course will prepare prospective, novice, or experienced ESL and EFL teachers with a foundation of writing skills in English.

You will be introduced into the discourse features which distinguish writing in English from the languages of the classroom participants so that they will understand the very different ways that English organizes information in the written form. You will also learn how to to build writing instruction into your classes as well as learn a variety of writing assessment options.

Learn basic techniques of the process approach such as:

• quickwriting
• brainstorming
• semantic mapping
• drafting
• peer review