COD 2026 - D1211

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

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

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Ciclo: 2026
Nivel: A Distancia
Idioma: Inglés
Estado: Anunciado
Lugar: A Distancia
Capacitador/es: Cecilia Lasa PhD
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1 04 Marzo 2026 05:30 pm 07:30 pm

Capacitador/es

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 literature-related
answers required by international exams.
- To offer teachers resources, strategies and possible activities to help students
write different types of literature-related answers (essay questions, passage-
based questions of seen and unseen literary texts, among others).
- To discuss different dynamics (individual, in pairs, in groups, whole-class) to
carry out different writing activities.
- To think of the relation between different writing objectives and activities.
- To foster metacognitive and metalinguistic reflection through writing activities.
- The importance of metacognitive and metalinguistic reflection in writing activities.
- The international exam paper as a genre: constructing an audience and thinking of
writing purposes.
- The importance of specific language in argumentative writing: words, expressions and
phraseology to use and to avoid.
- The construction of cohesive and solid argumentative texts through different
dynamics (individually, in pairs, in groups, whole-class).
- The relation between writing objectives and activities.
1) Discussion of frequent problems related to teaching to write literature-related
answers required by international exams 2) Exploration of specific features in the
different types of answers, similarities and differences 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 Passage-Based
Questions”
- Webinar - "IGCSE/AS Literature: Writing Tools and Strategies for Essay 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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