Teaching Writing at Cuban Pedagogical Colleges: Choosing the Right Approach. (Review)
Palabras clave:
traditional approaches; writing competence; integration of approachesResumen
This work focuses on the teaching of writing at Cuban Pedagogical colleges, on the selection of the right approach to improve prospective English teachers’ standards at the time of producing different kinds of texts. The research is a result of the experience accumulated by the English teaching staff at Blas Roca Calderío College of Education in the University of Granma. To help teachers to improve prospective English teachers’ writing competence, this article aims to present the combination of approaches in the teaching-learning process of writing skills as a possible channel. It is divided into two main sections. The first section provides some general theoretical information on each of the traditional writing approaches, while the second provides some hints on the possibilities to integrate them in the academic courses.
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