/library/oar/handle/123456789/1054 2025-12-25T16:46:47Z 2025-12-25T16:46:47Z Spiteri, Doreen /library/oar/handle/123456789/142450 2025-12-24T09:11:46Z 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Develop your writing skills - a workbook for students of English language in secondary schools Authors: Spiteri, Doreen Abstract: This workbook is intended for those preparing to take language examinations at the end of their secondary education who already write English with some confidence and who need to take their writing skills to a higher level. To benefit from this workbook, users need to be willing to do some thinking and some work. You will be able to improve your own writing skills by engaging in peer assessment of authentic examination writing tasks written by Maltese learners at the end of secondary education. By analysing the strong and weak points of these writing tasks, you will develop your self-assessment skills that are crucial for progress. You will find 15 examination writing tasks each followed by a series of questions that will focus on those criteria that help make your writing successful and help you gain higher marks.

2018-01-01T00:00:00Z Spiteri, Doreen /library/oar/handle/123456789/142449 2025-12-24T09:02:07Z 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Prose 2 : get ready for SEC English literature Authors: Spiteri, Doreen Abstract: Prose excerpts are challenging to handle - both for teachers and learners. The absence of the contextual help in the form of the novel itself, the front cover, and the blurb, at times requires the teacher to step in with some background information and requires the independent learners to look up the information themselves. Having said this, excerpts that are genre-specific expose learners to a range of types of fiction that serves the purpose not only of familiarising them with the choice of reading that is available, but also exposes them to language from a range of styles and lexical areas which are not normally afforded by a single set text. In addition, some excerpts are useful also for one's personal growth by virtue of the themes they touch upon, while others are valuable for the general knowledge they provide. The brevity of excerpts calls for close reading and the tasks in the workbook lead the user to first reading carefully at a basic but essential level to ensure comprehension, then rising to an appreciation of the literary features of the piece. Each Unit is divided into two parts. Part A consists of a series of questions that deal with meaning, viewpoint, and style. Part B is closely modelled on the SEC controlled paper which serves as preparation for both the SEC English Literature examination and classroom-based assessment.

2024-01-01T00:00:00Z Spiteri, Doreen /library/oar/handle/123456789/142448 2025-12-24T08:53:22Z 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Prose 1 : get ready for SEC English literature Authors: Spiteri, Doreen Abstract: Prose excerpts are challenging to handle - both for teachers and learners. The absence of the contextual help in the form of the novel itself, the front cover, and the blurb, at times requires the teacher to step in with some background information and requires the independent learners to look up the information themselves. Having said this, excerpts that are genre-specific expose learners to a range of types of fiction that serves the purpose not only of familiarising them with the choice of reading that is available, but also exposes them to language from a range of styles and lexical areas which are not normally afforded by a single set text. In addition, some excerpts are useful also for one's personal growth by virtue of the themes they touch upon, while others are valuable for the general knowledge they provide. The brevity of excerpts calls for close reading and the tasks in the workbook lead the user to first reading carefully at a basic but essential level to ensure comprehension, then rising to an appreciation of the literary features of the piece.; Each Unit is divided into two parts. Part A consists of a series of questions that deal with meaning, viewpoint and style. Part B is closely modelled on the SEC controlled paper which serves as preparation for both the SEC English Literature examination and classroom-based assessment.

2024-01-01T00:00:00Z Spiteri, Doreen Buhagiar, Jessica Darmenia, Roberta Zammit, Ilona /library/oar/handle/123456789/142447 2025-12-24T08:44:35Z 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Poetry 1 : get ready for SEC English literature Authors: Spiteri, Doreen; Buhagiar, Jessica; Darmenia, Roberta; Zammit, Ilona Abstract: This workbook is one of two specifically aimed at students sitting for the new SEC English Literature examination. It is intended to help students study poetry and get ready to be examined on it, and it does this by leading students to learn about poetry, understand it as a literary genre, and engage with it by developing a personal response to the poems. In this way, the Workbook goes beyond examination practice and provides students with the scaffolding required to develop the skills to analyse poems. Students work through several tasks that teach and not merely test, and students gradually develop the ability to express this awareness in writing. Writing frames help students structure their writing, and a specific focus on language provides them with the necessary words and phrases to answer the examination questions and satisfy the assessment criteria. Each Unit focuses on one poem from those set in the English Literature syllabus, together with another poem. The second poem in each unit functions as an example of the unseen poem that the students will need to tackle in the examination. Also available is a Teacher's Book that provides a: pedagogical guide to complement the teacher's skills, and answer keys to the tasks in the Workbook.

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