Marking against criteria
Every piece of writing is checked against each marking criterion, showing exactly what pulls the score down, instead of handing back a band number.
IELTS Writing · Reading
Nguyễn Thu Trang
Main strength
Marks writing against each criterion, pointing out every lost mark in the student's own sentence.
- IELTS score
- 8.5
- Experience
- 7 years
Leads Writing and Reading on the IELTS courses, and builds the shared marking criteria and feedback templates the whole teaching team works from.
Introduction
About Nguyễn Thu Trang
Seven years of teaching, leading Writing and Reading on the IELTS Academic 4.5 – 7.0 and 7.0+ courses. Most of each session goes on marking in the room: students write in class, the work is read straight away against each marking criterion, and every lost mark is pointed out in the student's own sentence.
Outside class hours comes the work of building the marking criteria and feedback templates the whole team shares — the thing that keeps one piece of writing getting the same feedback no matter who marks it.
In the classroom
How these lessons run
Focused rewriting
Each revision targets one or two errors, so students can see precisely which change made the piece better.
Reading as material for writing
Reading passages done in class become the source of sentence structures and vocabulary for the next Writing task, rather than the two skills being learnt apart.
Currently teaching
Courses and skills
Programmes taught
- IELTS
IELTS Academic 4.5 – 7.0
The Writing and Reading strands: paragraph structure, topic sentences, and locating information in a passage.
IELTS Academic 7.0+
Writing Task 1 and Task 2 held close to the marking criteria, with detailed feedback every session.
Written feedback
Reading and commenting on the Writing students submit to the Wobridge platform between sessions.
Next step
Find the class that matches your current level
Wobridge uses a placement test to work out your current band, then recommends the stage and the teacher that fit your goal.