In order to assess your writing ability in English, you will be asked to answer a short question in written English. The content of the answer will not be used to determine if you are a qualified teacher; it will be used to see how well you can write in English.

Procedure:
1) The TEA representative will give you a question and ask you to repond to it in writing. The question will be about an area that you are familiar with. Possible questions might ask you to compare something from your home country with the US or to give an opinion on some aspect of teaching.
2) You will have 20-30 minutes to write your answer.
3) The rater will then take and score your response

Scoring:
The TEA representative will be rating you on the following:
Development - how much did you write in the time given?
Organization - do you understand formal writing in English?
Structure - do you use proper grammar, punctuation, and capitalization?
Support - do you give enough evidence to support your answer?

In each of the four areas, you will be given a score of Beginning, Intermediate, or Advanced. You will need to have at least 3 intermediate and one advanced score to be considered for an exchange.

Good luck with your writing.

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