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From https://gianfrancoconti.wordpress.com

Gianfranco Conti writes,

“Say you are the coach of a team of novice football players. You wouldn’t throw them into a very difficult match straight away, without the necessary training. Right? Surely you would make sure they received lots of practice in all the most crucial aspects of the game from the most basic skills (e.g. passing, drilling, tackling and shooting) to the most complex ones (e.g. defensive and offensive tactics). This is common sense, and it should apply to language teaching, too. Yet, many of us, from the very early days of A Level or IB, ask students to write cognitively and linguistically demanding discursive essays of some length, without teaching them all of the skills necessary to accomplish that challenging task effectively.”

Read on to learn more about how focusing on the process of writing can strengthen students’ writing skills: https://gianfrancoconti.wordpress.com/2015/06/19/how-process-driven-instruction-may-enhance-foreign-language-upper-intermediate-students-essay-writing/