Developing Writing Skills for IELTS A Research-Based Approach 1st Edition

DEVELOPING WRITING SKILLS FOR IELTS

An essential companion for IELTS writing instructors and students, Developing Writing Skills for IELTS provides IELTS test-takers with the necessary skills to succeed in the two academic writing tasks in IELTS. Adopting an original exemplar-based writing instructional approach, this text offers an in-depth and reader-friendly analysis of the assessment standards of the two academic writ- ing tasks in IELTS. Authentic exemplars written by EFL university students are included to illustrate high (Bands 8–9), average (Bands 6–7), and low (Bands 4–5) performances in IELTS writing. Key Features:

• Diagrammatical representation of assessment standards of the two academic writing tasks by experienced IELTS writing examiners and instructors. • 100 writing questions modelled after the IELTS format, designed by the authors, and categorised according to question types and topics that emerge from an analysis of over 400 IELTS writing questions. • Over 100 writing exemplars by EFL university students, accompanied by guided activi- ties and suggested answers.

Designed as a classroom text, a resource for workshops and consultations, or a self-study material, Developing Writing Skills for IELTS: A Research-based Approach will support IELTS writing instructors and test-takers with a variety of writing proficiencies.

Sin Wang Chong is Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in TESOL in the School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work at Queen’s University Belfast in the UK. His research interests include language and educational assessment, research synthesis, and computer-assisted language learning. He is Associate Editor of two journals, Higher Education Research & Development (T&F) and Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching (T&F).

Xuejun Ye is a doctoral candidate in Applied Language Sciences at the Hong Kong Polytech- nic University and a former research assistant at the Education University of Hong Kong.

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