COD 2026 - D1213

Webinar - IGCSE/AS Literature: Writing Tools and Strategies for Essay Questions

AS&A Level Language and Literature teachers, IGCSE Literature teachers, secondary school teachers interested in helping students improve their writing.

1 sessions, start: 18-Mar

Please enrol before Friday, March 13th 2026

Course detail

Year: 2026
Level: Distance
Language: English
Status: Confirmed
Lugar: Distance
Facilitator/s: Cecilia Lasa PhD
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Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 18 March 2026 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&A Level Language and Literature teachers, IGCSE Literature teachers, secondary school teachers interested in helping students improve their writing.
- To promote a genre-based approach to teach students to write answers to
essay questions.
- To offer teachers resources, strategies and possible activities specific to essay
questions.
- To discuss different dynamics (individual, in pairs, in groups, whole-class)
through which to tackle essay questions in the classroom.
- To think of the relation between different writing objectives and activities
specific to essay questions.
- To foster metacognitive and metalinguistic reflection through writing activities
for unseen texts.
- The importance of metacognitive and metalinguistic reflection in writing activities for
essay questions.
- The essay question as a sub-genre: constructing an audience and thinking of writing
purposes.
- The importance of specific language in the answers to essay questions: words,
expressions and phraseology to use and to avoid.
- The construction of cohesive and solid argumentative answers to essay questions
through different dynamics (individually, in pairs, in groups, whole-class).
- The relation between writing objectives and activities specific to essay questions.
1) Discussion of frequent problems related to teaching to write answers to essay
questions 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 - “IGCSE/AS Literature: Writing Tools and Strategies for Literature-Related
Questions”
- Webinar - “IGCSE/AS Literature: Writing Tools and Strategies for Passage-Based
Questions”
- Webinar - “IGCSE/AS Literature: Writing Tools and Strategies for Unseen Texts”
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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