Teaching Writing : the Problems Encountered By the Rural Students

Abstract

Rural students in India are facing a lot of difficulties while writing English language. These problems arise because the students are not adequately familiar with English language and they do not have enough practice of it. This article highlights the main reasons behind the problems of writing and recommends some solutions to overcome them. The skill of writing is not only important but also an important productive skill hence it must be taken into consideration but not neglected. Teaching English writing skills involves in developing linguistic and communicative competence of the learner which is quite a challenging task. Many factors hinder the process of teaching and learning writing skills. Most of the students of the rural engineering colleges do not perform well in English writing tasks and ultimately face average or poor results in academics. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the problems which hinder the teachers in developing English writing skills in the rural engineering colleges.