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Teaching English in Buenos Aires: Teaching How to Write
It is important to know how to incorporate every type of language learning into your English classes, these include speaking, reading, writing, and listening.
In the following blogs, we will cover each one so that you can implement them into your following English lessons in Buenos Aires.
Lesson 1: Teaching How to Write
- Organize your writing lessons, you will have to teach your English students different stages of writing: pre-writing, writing, editing, proof-reading.
- Have your students practice writing in every single lesson, even if its only for a short a period.
- Teach each level of learner different levels of writing;
- Beginners: short sentences, short paragraphs, punctuation.
- Intermediate: Paragraphs, essays, creative writing, punctuation.
- Advanced: Essays, creative writing, formal writing, poetry, punctuation, etc.
- Use writing tasks such as: small descriptive paragraphs, short stories, poetry, email, resumes, job applications, opinions, articles, etc.
- Correct their writing work with a red pen so that they can see where they have made the mistake and how to improve it for the future.
- Combine writing and reading exercises so that they can use their visual memory and apply it to their writing.
- Most importantly, be patient with your students and remember that learning to write in another language is often more difficult than learning to speak, and they may need a lot of support during the process.
- Check out our next English Lesson: Listening.
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