Strategies for Improving English Essay Writing Skill

Abstract

The present study aimed to strategies for improving English essay writing skill. Writing is an essential skill for students; however, writing skill tends to be the most difficult and complicated skill for both native speakers and second-language students. The students face the problems of grammar, vocabulary, ideas, and organization, with writing. The students should have writing strategies or techniques to assist them in their writings. Besides, teachers need to realize the weakness of the students in order to solve the problem directly. To help solve these problems, the present study intends to explore what writing strategies EFL high school students use as well as to investigate the similarity and difference of writing strategies used by the high and the low English ability students. The obtained findings will be beneficial and valuable in assisting learners themselves in writing and will help teachers to better understand writing strategies that the students used in order to help develop students’ writing skills.