The revised National Curriculum in Lithuania introduces the mediation task of data description. This seminar is aimed at equipping English teachers with the pedagogical strategies and practical tools necessary to teach and assess this task in line with B2+ CEFR requirements effectively. Participants will explore how to teach learners to interpret data from graphs, tables, and charts, and other forms of visual presentation, structure information logically into a coherent and cohesive text, describe trends, choose details to support the claims, make comparisons, and draw conclusions. Through a combination of theoretical background, hands-on practice, and student text analysis, teachers will gain insight into how report writing can be integrated into classroom practice, taught explicitly, and assessed reliably according to the VBE criteria.
Jurga Kasteckienė has been a lecturer of Academic Writing at Vilnius University for more than 20 years. In 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021 she was a senior exam assessor of the State Examination in English and an assessor-trainer. Since 2022 she has been functioning as the head of the Assessment Commission for the State Examination in English. In recent years she has held numerous seminars on Academic Writing for teachers and students throughout Lithuania. Participating in Erasmus teaching programme she ran writing seminars at Jaume University (Spain) and Universidade Autonoma de Barcelona (Spain). She also participatedin the international project TEMPLATE (Technology-Mediated Plurilingual Activities for (language) Teacher Education) and the project “Digitalization of Language Teaching” run by Vilnius University. She follows new trends in teaching and assessing Academic Writing and is eager to share her knowledge and experience with teachers in Lithuania.