Teaching strategies for developing students’ English writing skills at the secondary level of Bangladesh

Abstract

English writing is an important part of second language learners at school, work, and in learners own lives. In teaching writing, the instructors needs a few things, like an Association, to create and construct thoughts, contentions and data ( Ahlsen & Lundh,2017).Teacher should foster the elements of techniques before teaching. However, Maximum Bangladeshi students have great fear in writing English in their own words and face many difficulties. Students have this fear because of – lack of vocabulary, lack of concentration, inadequate knowledge on grammar, sentence construction etc. The students of secondary level education in Bangladesh are accustomed to memorizing the paragraph and write the memorized paragraph on exam script for lake of creativity or free handwriting which implies that students are not ready to think on their own and create something new (Hasan,2014). This study aims to explore how teachers can improve learners' writing skills by following strategies at the secondary level education of Bangladesh. I applied a qualitative study for my research work. At first I decided on research questions. Based on research questions, I interviewed 7 participants, 5 of them are teachers and 2 of them are students. According to the findings, inadequate knowledge on grammar, vocabulary, sentence constitution, lack of competence in English, lack of trained teacher, which needs to be addressed and strategies proposed to improve writing skills are :regular feedback, working in group or peer, the importance of creative writing, drafting, editing,error correction, co operative Learning, practicing writing, role play, story writing, game based learning, proper guidelines, motivation. This study will help teachers and students relate to secondary education to develop their writing skills of students.