COD 2026 - D1214

Webinar - IGCSE/AS Literature: Writing Tools and Strategies for Unseen Texts

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 26 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 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 - “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 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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