EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES FOR TEACHING WRITING

Abstract

Being one of the basic skills of any language, writing skill is considered to be an essential skill to be acquired. But some educators claim that, in spite of being an important skill, writing is supposed to be rather difficult and boring subject among language learners who are learning foreign languages as their target language. The purpose of this article is to outline some drawbacks that causes some difficulties in teaching writing skills to the students. The paper further investigates the effectiveness of using a number of strategies and techniques in this process.Moreover, the article is aimed at whether students who are informed all the stages of writing techniques can produce better written texts in terms of organization, development, accuracy, coherence, structure, as well as an adequate vocabulary. And the subjects of the article are some noticeable problems of students with writing skills, attitudes and perceptions of students towards it and a suitable content of successful writing and its elements.