Stephen Tarbuck

When preparing students for writing in the Cambridge English B2 First exam, we should provide our students with as many opportunities as possible to practise the writing papers. Unfortunately, the frequency of this practice is often limited. There are many possible reasons for this limitation but I want to focus on one specifically: the time involved in consistently grading each paper to a suitable standard that fulfils the marking criteria of the institution, while also providing actionable feedback. In order to address this with my own classes, I designed and implemented an after-writing checklist that focuses on the B2 First exam....

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