Writing Instruction: A Reflection on the Demands of Teacher Training in Cuba from a Didactic Perspective

Abstract

The objective of this article is to show how to train future foreign language teachers on aspects related to the teaching of writing, as way to enhance in trainees an appropriate mode of action to assume the teaching and learning processes of English as a foreign language, paying attention to accurate techniques and procedures for doing it, through the micro level of the academic curriculum of Foreign Languages Didactic, to learn how to teach in contemporary Cuban society. This practice is focused on the gradual development of appropriate actions and intellectual skills for the teaching profession. This article discusses some general aspects to be taken into account for the planning, implementation and evaluation of the micro-curriculum through tasks, exercises and activities in micro-teaching that teachers-in training develop in the subject lessons, as part of their process of education, with the professional knowledge teachers must have to fulfill the tasks and duties of the profession in different educational levels, focused on teaching writing mainly for communicative purposes, as learners go through the different grades, taking into consideration the forthcoming tendency for writing instruction in Cuba and what it ought to be. Different methods were used for the inquiry, which had a qualitative perspective that included using criteria from the products of the results of the pedagogic process to assess the theoretical arguments that deal with the viability of actions carried out.