Key Strategies for a Focus on Creative Writing in ELT – Using Mentor Texts in Teacher Education

Abstract

Bland puts forward in her paper a strategy with detailed guidelines for introducing creative writing in teacher education. She reflects on bolstering student teachers’ self-confidence in guiding their language learners to recognize how compelling and persuasive texts achieve impact.

Keywords

• david almond
• philip pullman
• creative writing
• mentor text
• poetic devices
• teacher education