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Communicative Language Teaching is highly advocated by many applied linguists and English languag... more Communicative Language Teaching is highly advocated by many applied linguists and English language teachers as an effective language teaching approach. But, the implementation of CLT in English as Foreign Language (EFL) context has encountered a huge number of difficulties. These difficulties vary widely from country to country. Bangladeshi English teachers also mention some problems that
In Bangladeshi educational institutions L2 writers are found to encounter various writing problem... more In Bangladeshi educational institutions L2 writers are found to encounter various writing problems. The circumference of this problem does not confine to the secondary and the higher secondary level. It reaches up to the tertiary level. But at this stage of learning students are generally expected to produce high standard writing. These learners practice writing at the different pre-university stages but this long time practice fails to bring any changes in their writing proficiency. Though they acquire grammatical accuracy but their writings reveal repetitions, inappropriate organization of ideas, parallelism, short-length, lack of variation, use of vague words, lack of appropriate information, etc which make it incoherent. So the goal of the current study is to spotlight the general writing problems encountered by the tertiary level students in Bangladesh. It also aims at finding out the reasons hidden behind these problems. The research used closed questionnaire and writing samples of the students. Analysis of findings revealed that the numerous problems faced by the students lies in their wrong attitude towards writing. I hope this research will be helpful for teachers and students to identify the writing problems. It will also help the syllabus planner to design course materials according to the students' need.
Communicative Language Teaching is highly advocated by many applied linguists and English languag... more Communicative Language Teaching is highly advocated by many applied linguists and English language teachers as an effective language teaching approach. But, the implementation of CLT in English as Foreign Language (EFL) context has encountered a huge number of difficulties. These difficulties vary widely from country to country. Bangladeshi English teachers also mention some problems that
In Bangladeshi educational institutions L2 writers are found to encounter various writing problem... more In Bangladeshi educational institutions L2 writers are found to encounter various writing problems. The circumference of this problem does not confine to the secondary and the higher secondary level. It reaches up to the tertiary level. But at this stage of learning students are generally expected to produce high standard writing. These learners practice writing at the different pre-university stages but this long time practice fails to bring any changes in their writing proficiency. Though they acquire grammatical accuracy but their writings reveal repetitions, inappropriate organization of ideas, parallelism, short-length, lack of variation, use of vague words, lack of appropriate information, etc which make it incoherent. So the goal of the current study is to spotlight the general writing problems encountered by the tertiary level students in Bangladesh. It also aims at finding out the reasons hidden behind these problems. The research used closed questionnaire and writing samples of the students. Analysis of findings revealed that the numerous problems faced by the students lies in their wrong attitude towards writing. I hope this research will be helpful for teachers and students to identify the writing problems. It will also help the syllabus planner to design course materials according to the students' need.