Exploring EFL’s Effective Writing Strategies at Intermediate Level
Suha Idrees Mohammed
Nineveh Directorate of Education, Ministry of Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.25130/jls.6.3.2.11
Keywords: Writing, EFL, Strategy, windy thinking
Abstract
Many students find difficulty in writing. Teaching writing is more difficult than teaching other language skills especially to EFL students because the students have limited knowledge of the foreign language and they do not have enough experiences in it. Writing is not an easy task, for this reason, the present study aims at highlighting and suggesting some strategies to provide the students with information and to help them to write successfully. It also aims at developing students’ knowledge about writing effectively and encourage them to gain confidence and overcome the difficulties. The present study hypothesizes that the new strategies for writing have a good and positive impact on the students’ performance. The procedures used in the current study are summarized as follows: A theoretical background of the writing process and effective writing in general is presented. Collecting new strategies for writing from different available sources to help student to overcome the difficulty in their writing. The study concludes with some suggestions for further research.
