Effective Strategies for Improving Writing Skills of Elementary English Language Learners

Summary 

Writing has always been seen as an important skill in English language acquisition. This 

importance is due to the fact that it reinforces grammatical structures and vocabulary that 

educators strive to teach their students. It is the area in which learners need to be offered 

adequate time to develop their writing skill, therefore more time should be devoted to it in 

classrooms containing ELLs so that they will be prepared to effectively communicate in real life 

as well as academic situations (Ismail, 2007). Exposing them to the writing process itself through 

various venues is an excellent way to reach this goal. Additionally, writing skills can be 

developed when the learners' interests are acknowledged and when they are given frequent 

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opportunities to actually practice writing (Ismail, 2007). Because one of the main goals of ESL 

students is to learn to produce a well-thought-out piece of writing, a specific writing program 

must be in place in order to meet the needs of these learners. After careful evaluation of the 

literature, it was found that numerous researchers discovered the need for ESL students to be 

exposed to a variety of genres, strategies, and methods in order to succeed in the writing of 

English.