DEVELOPING WRITING SKILLS USING PICTURES AS A TOOL: AN APPROACH OF TEACHING IN ESL CLASSROOM (Pages ) by Dr. M. Richard Robert Raa in Language - Literature - Linguistics And Allied Journals

Learning how to write in a second language is one of the most challenging aspects of second language learning. Perhaps this is not surprising in a view of the fact that even for those who speak English as a first language, the ability to write effectively is something that requires extensive and specialized instruction. Within the field of second and foreign language teaching, the teaching of writing has come to assume a much more central position that it occupied twenty or thirty years ago. Command of good writing skills is increasingly seen as vital for success in the 21st century. The ability to communicate ideas and information effectively is crucially dependent on good writing skills. Writing has been identified as one of the essential process skills in a word that is more than ever driven by text and numerical data.earning how to write in a second language is one of the most challenging aspects of second language learning. Perhaps this is not surprising in a view of the fact that even for those who speak English as a first language, the ability to write effectively is something that requires extensive and specialized instruction. Within the field of second and foreign language teaching, the teaching of writing has come to assume a much more central position that it occupied twenty or thirty years ago. Command of good writing skills is increasingly seen as vital for success in the 21st century. The ability to communicate ideas and information effectively is crucially dependent on good writing skills. Writing has been identified as one of the essential process skills in a word that is more than ever driven by text and numerical data.Keywords: second language, challenging aspects, extensive and specialized instruction, foreign language teaching, good writing skills, etc.