{"id":5981,"date":"2017-02-21T05:13:50","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T05:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eltweekly.com\/?p=5981"},"modified":"2017-02-21T05:13:50","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T05:13:50","slug":"making-the-impossible-possible-qa-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eltweekly.humbeestudio.xyz\/?p=5981","title":{"rendered":"Making the Impossible Possible \u2013 Q&A session"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last month, we hosted Gareth Davies\u2019 webinar, <\/em>\u2018Making the Impossible Possible: How to get your students writing\u2019<\/a>.\u00a0During the webinar and on his previous blog post, we called for questions for Gareth that we could ask him post-webinar, to delve deeper into creative writing in the EFL classroom. Here\u2019s the full transcript of this interview:<\/em><\/p>\n

What is your opinion on teachers writing a sample text for students to get used to writing?<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a good question, reading and writing go hand in hand and there is evidence to suggest that the more reading a student does the better their writing will become, so in general having as much exposure to different texts can only help students.<\/p>\n

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Having or not having a model is often the cited as the major difference between process and product writing. In process writing the students study a sample text and use it as a model and is a good approach for students who are preparing for an exam or who need to write formulaic emails or reports. However, sometimes I think this can impose restrictions on students. So if I am doing a creative writing exercise I might avoid giving students a model at the start of the activity, to allow their creative juices to flow.<\/p>\n

Have you ever tried to channel the positive energy of these creative writing tasks and turn them into positive academic writing performance?<\/strong><\/p>\n

How could we use these ideas to writing for exams? I mean, IELTS, Cambridge exams?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thanks for this question, let me try to give you an analogy. When someone trains to run a marathon, they don\u2019t only run long distances.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Read full article on OUP ELT BLog<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last month, we hosted Gareth Davies\u2019 webinar, \u2018Making the Impossible Possible: How to get your students writing\u2019.\u00a0During the webinar and on his previous blog post, we called for questions for Gareth that we could ask him post-webinar, to delve deeper into creative writing in the EFL classroom. 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