How to teach writing skills in ESL | Teaching students self-assessment

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What better way to teach writing skills to ESL students than teaching them to teach themselves? In this video I share 5 ESL writing strategies and tips that will improve your student's writing work in no time. Self-assessment is an essential skill for ESL students and in this video you will learn how to teach your students to self evaluate their essays, letters, stories and much more.
All the ideas in this video are really easy to use and will give your students a clear route to improving their level quickly. They will improve their vocabulary skills such as using synonyms, antonyms, collocations and a rich variety of words. We also see how these skills improve their CEFR level going from A1 to C2.
Most teacher's I have met do not like teaching writing in ESL class as they find it too hard to show their students why they make the same errors over and over again. I have instructed the teachers at my school to use the tools in this video to hand over responsibility to the students for their own work and not always rely on their teacher to show them exactly the mistake or the correct style or structure without thinking for themselves.
Chapters for this video:
0:00 Intro
0:24 How teacher's feel
0:58 Inspiration for this video
1:49 Idea number 1
2:22 Idea number 2
2:49 Idea number 3
3:14 Idea number 4
3:43 Putting it into practice
6:44 Idea number 5
7:07 Outro
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[@CharliesLessons]

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[@kimiaashakery4825]

Lovely! Thank you!

[@CharliesLessons]

Which idea did you like the most?

[@TEFLLemon]

Charlie!!! I'm here to do research on the new unit I'm writing on productive skills on our TESOL course. I'll include a link to this video for my trainees in our supplementary resources section in that unit. Cheers mate!

[@CharliesLessons]

A word of warning, not sure if the duolingo text checker is back online or not.

[@TEFLLemon]

@@CharliesLessons Ah cool, I'll check that out just in case. The idea for using the CEFR tools is great! I used the CEFR English Profile site on the unit on Teaching Vocabulary, it's an excellent tool for students and teachers.

[@virginiamendonca7891]

Great sense of humour😅and great tips even with almost 200 students...😱😵🤪 i am going to try...💪

[@CharliesLessons]

Thanks for the feedback. Yes it takes time to really teach students to be autonomous but it's worth it.

[@CharliesLessons]

How reliable do you think the Duolingo CEFR checker is?

[@Caikey]

Does it still exist? I can't find it

[@TheChurlishBoor]

That's not a bad idea to teach the students to experiment with those tools. Certainly non-native English teachers would also benefit. Native English teachers, though... They really ought to spend more time contemplating the 'things' that the words are pointing to and why those words are chosen. Some collocations are cultural habits, but some do have an underlying logic due to the properties that the 'things' (that are being referenced by the words) have. Properties that careful thought can reveal... Though it helps if the teachers can "figure >out" exactly what "scribe" and "de-scribe" means and how to de-tail (the dog...). But that is for Native speaking English teachers to contemplate, and not to teach, of course. In the mean time, noob preceptors ought to figure out what "is" means, for it now does appear as being... (But, to whom, where from what perspective...?)🤪

[@CharliesLessons]

You're right, collocations can be frustrating for learners so any kind of 'rule' or 'norm' can be useful.

[@sushantachowdhury8385]

Sir, what is the price you charge for the course?

[@CharliesLessons]

I currently don't run any courses but you contact me on my business address in the about section when I start.

[@quango6214]

The doulingo cefr website doesn't seem to work anymore, sadly

[@CharliesLessons]

Yes I found out in class the other day, very frustrating

[@nestorperez6867]

Could you recommend another checker?

[@CharliesLessons]

@@nestorperez6867 roadtogrammar has a decent one but its not as good as the Duolingo checker. Don't know why they got rid of that.

[@nestorperez6867]

@@CharliesLessons really frustrating because it was really helpful. I'll check the one you just recommended. Thanks!

[@hugoocampo8018]

Sorry, I can't understand what you say at 0:19 :(

[@CharliesLessons]

I say one of them is Duolingo.