COD 2025 - D1086

Webinar - Writing and IGCSE/AS/A Level Literature. Metacognitive and Metalinguistic activities to Write about Unseen Texts

AS Language and Literature teachers, IGCSE Literature teachers, secondary school teachers interested in helping students improve their writing, especially, of answers to unseen texts

1 sessions, start: 27-Mar

Course detail

Year: 2025
Level: Distance
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: Distance
Facilitator/s: Cecilia Lasa PhD
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Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 27 March 2025 05:30 pm 07:30 pm

Facilitator/s

Cecilia Lasa

Cecilia Lasa holds a Ph. D. in Literature and a Master's Degree in Literatures in Foreign Languages and in Comparative Literatures (FFyL, UBA). She is a Teacher of English (IESLV "Juan R. Fernández") and a Teacher of Literature (FFyL, UBA). She has a Higher Diploma in Research in Humanities (UBA) and has done a Specialisation in Reading, Writing and Education (FLACSO) and in Writing and Literature (Ministerio de Educación, Argentina). She has worked as a teacher of Literature and of academic reading and writing in Teacher Training Colleges in Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires and national universities as well. She is currently working as a teacher and researcher in English Literature and American Literature (FFyL, UBA). She is the author of Academic Writing and has edited and co-authored Literatura y formación docente. Proyectos de lectura y de escritura.
AS Language and Literature teachers, IGCSE Literature teachers, secondary school teachers interested in helping students improve their writing, especially, of answers to unseen texts
- To promote a genre-based approach to teach students to write answers to unseen texts.
- To offer teachers resources, strategies and possible writing activities specific to unseen texts.
- To discuss different dynamics (individual, in pairs, in groups, whole-class) through which to teach to write answers to unseen texts in the classroom.
- To think of the relation between different writing objectives and activities specific to unseen texts.
- To foster metacognitive and metalinguistic reflection through writing activities for unseen texts.
- The importance of metacognitive and metalinguistic reflection in writing activities for unseen texts.
- The unseen text as a sub-genre: constructing an audience and thinking of writing purposes.
- The importance of specific language in the answers to unseen texts: words, expressions and phraseology to use and to avoid.
- The construction of cohesive and solid argumentative answers to unseen texts through different dynamics (individually, in pairs, in groups, whole-class).
- The relation between writing objectives and activities specific to unseen texts.
1) Discussion of frequent problems related to teaching to write answers to unseen texts 2) Exploration of specific features of the sub-genre and possible activities to teach them 3) Guided group reflection on answers provided by the participants on possible activities, resources and strategies.
This webinar is part of the series “Metacognitive and Metalinguistic Reflection for Writing Skills”, which offers different tools for teachers to approach passage-based questions, essay questions and unseen texts. Although each webinar is independent from the others, each of them deals with specific aspects of those text types.
The other three webinars are:
- Webinar - Writing and IGCSE/AS/A Level Literature. Metacognitive and Metalinguistic Reflection in Writing Activities
- Webinar - Writing and IGCSE/AS/A Level Literature. Metacognitive and Metalinguistic Activities to Answer Passage-Based Questions
- Webinar - Writing and IGCSE/AS/A Level Literature. Metacognitive and Metalinguistic activities to Answer Essay Questions
Cambridge International Examinations. Learner Guide IGCSE® Literature in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Russell, Carey. Cambridge IGCSE® and O Level Literature in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Whitthome, Elizabeth. AS & A Level Literature in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
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