develop writing skills- ideas worth practicing in ESL / EFL Classroom

Общество и инновации, 2021

As the title implies the article describes the benefits of different approaches in teaching writing through different types of activities and methods. The aim of the article is to provide the reader with some material on organizing the writing lesson effectively. Variety types of useful activities of teaching writing skill are emphasized in the article.

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), 2022

Effective teaching of the four skills has been the primary concern of research in the TEFL field. Yet, the importance of writing makes it one of the most useful and essential life skills for language learners and teachers alike. Due to its multiple uses and functions, the writing skill enables learners to constantly expand their personal horizons. In actual fact, mastering the writing process contributes to the learners' achievement of their immediate goals, while serving them in the classroom and beyond. Nevertheless, given the complexity of teaching writing skills, teachers have consistently found it to be one of the most difficult and challenging skills to teach, especially in the EFL/ESL contexts. This article aims to illustrate, summarize, and above all synthesize the main approaches followed in teaching writing in ESL/EFL contexts. The article gives an overview of the controlled-to-free approach, the free-writing approach, the grammar-syntax-organization approach, the paragraph-pattern approach, the communicative approach, the product approach, and the process approach, with a special focus on the two main approaches to teaching writing; namely, the process approach involving training student writers to follow the stages of the writing process through different activities. These activities include brainstorming, pairedstudent and small-group language problem-solving activities, free writing, multi drafting, structured peer feedback and teacher-student conferencing. Along with this, the article gives an overview of the product approach to teaching writing. This approach involves teaching writing primarily through model analysis, writing exercises, and structured teacher-student feedback sessions.

The present research has been carried out in the English Department at the College of Education for Women, Baghdad University to diagnose 2nd year EFL students' deficiencies in writing so as to improve their performance via a range of repeated writing activities. The researcher applied a one-group design of pre-and post-tests in order to statistically measure the difference of the means of students' scores. The results show that the difference is significant.

Celt: A Journal of Culture, English Language Teaching & Literature, 2016

Writing skill has been considered the most difficult language skill to master, and teaching the skills has also been not simple. Part of a research report on teaching writing in English at a senior high school in Surabaya, this paper is aimed to demonstrate that English teachers at the school are skillful and resourceful in teaching writing. With reference to 11 elements or strategies of writing instruction discussed in Graham and Perin (2007), five English teachers at die school were interviewed. The interview guide includes 24 questions centered on the 11 elements. Interview results show that the teachers make vise of most elements or strategies in their English classes. The teachers explained that such strategies as collaborative writing, sentence combining, prewriting, inquiry activities, and study of models are conducted frequently in the classroom. They found the strategies important and helpful for teaching writing skills in English to their students. The findings indicate th...

Ethical Lingua: Journal of Language Teaching and Literature, 2020

The objectives of the study were to investigate the process of English writing from students of undergraduate international class, to describe problems faced by students in writing English, and to find out the factors which inhibit and improve their writing skills. There were six female respondents in international class. The study used documentation from the students’ work, open-ended questionnaire and interview as the instruments for data gathering. All the data were analyzed by using descriptive qualitative approach. The results of this study showed that all students used four stages in the process of English writing: planning, drafting, editing and final revision. The students’ English writing problems covered content, organization, vocabulary, language use and mechanic. The factors which inhibit them in writing English included not being confident in writing English, not mastering grammar and vocabulary, and lack of practice in writing. The aspects which encourage them to write...

EFL writing skills development through literature, 2021

Learning another language as English requires a combination of knowledge of the target language with skills and strategies that enable an individual to use them effectively. That is a learner has to develop knowledge about receptive skills; i.e., listening and reading, as well as productive ones; i.e., speaking and writing. Though all the skills are important for language learning, the writing skill is probably the most needed in academic and professional communities. It constitutes an important means of communication through which the writer expresses feeling, ideas and arguments. In the case of English language learning, writing in a language that one is not familiar with constitutes a hard task. In fact, though writing represents a crucial skill for learning any language, its complex nature makes it a challenging affair for both the learners and the teachers. It requires the learners to be guided and assisted in their efforts to reach success. Besides, the teachers are expected t...

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2018

Writing as a work of art and a form of connection has become the framework of our world' s communication, business, job-opportunities, and foreign language education. In their early struggles with major skills, English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students describe the process of writing as problematic and complicated. Yet, throughout time as their academic tasks become more demanding and enquiring and with the assistance of their teachers, these language learners can become writing connoisseurs. This paper tried to explore if these students can overcome the writing difficulties by engaging in assigned activities. The data were collected through a case study carried out with third Year LMD students using questionnaires administered to the learners, informal interviews, discussion classes and assessment of students' feedback from the assignments. Findings demonstrate that the suggested techniques have helped the learners' promote their writing aptitudes and nourish their motivation to write in the target language.

Scholars International Journal of Linguistics and Literature

This study employed needs analysis approach to investigate EFL students' needs to improve their writing skills. The data were collected from 28 EFL undergraduate students studying at the Department of English, Faculty of Arts, University of Zawia through the modality of questionnaire. The results suggested that the students believed that improving their writing skills is significant for their current study and their future career. The results also revealed that students needed to improve most of their writing skills and extending their knowledge about the writing aspects including content, organization, vocabulary, grammar, mechanics and others. These results implied that the students had limited knowledge of the necessary writing aspects, and they suffered lack of practicing writing in and outside their classrooms. Understanding the students' needs to improve their writing skills, the study ended with suggestions and recommendations that might contribute in improving students' writing skills.

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Wosinsky Mór Múzeum Évkönyve, 2023