Writing in English: an exploration to find out the most effective strategy used in developing the skill

Abstract

Writing skill is one of the hardest skills among the four in the process of learning a second language. Learner face so many troubles to develop their writing skill in the process of learning a second language as it holds up the standard format of a language. However, to make this process easy, there are different types of methods and process that are established in the present days. The main purpose of this research is to determine the most effective method and strategy that helped the learners to develop their writing skill in the process of learning the second language. The present paper is conducted by following the qualitative research method. All the data of this paper has been collected by taking interviews of the participants. Later, these data were analysed through narrative analysis. In the interview session, 5 participants participated. All of them are now professionals as presently they are teacher in different school and university. The interview was an open-ended question/answer session. The questions were asked to regulate, what kind of difficulties, issues, influence or dominant situation they go through and the reason behind the difficulties in the process of developing the writing skill. Additionally, it observes to find out the most effective materials and tools that helped the learner to improve their skills. The final study reveals that the participants prefer the modern teaching method which are CLT and Free writing approach. Besides, having this type of teaching method in the class, some modern teaching techniques helped them to develop their situation such as: Eliciting, Inferencing and an efficient classroom environment where motivation, inspiration are practiced by the teacher. Further, plenty exposure to reading materials and journals writing are the secondary sources that helped them.