On the Importance of Teaching Writing to Teacher Trainees

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Damian Finnegan ([email protected]) 
\nAsko Kauppinen ([email protected])
\nAnna Wärnsby ([email protected])
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\nOn the Importance of Teaching Academic Writing to Teacher Trainees
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\nMany EFL learners struggle with issues pertaining to grammar, style and idiomaticity, and, traditionally, language teachers spend a lot of time addressing these mechanical errors (Zamel 1985). This corrective practice seems to shape learner and teacher expectations of the type of feedback that is most effective or useful to learners (Hedgcock and Lefkowitz 1996). In the context of teaching academic writing, this may easily pose a problem for allocating teacher resources away from teaching writing as a process to taking care of the learner language issues. In the new Swedish school curriculum for English, however, the ability to write for different purposes and audiences and the familiarity with different text types is made prominent (Lgr11). Therefore, the teach

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