Second language writing skills

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Second language writing skills

Suggestions and solutions

Improve teaching methods

Conscious and incidental vocabulary teaching

Increase the number of writing practice

Increase the number of reading practice

Active and experential learning to increase motivation and interest

Actitvities to promote creativity and critical thinking

Cooperative learning

Incorporate technologies

Manipulative activities

Innovative methods

Common problems and difficulties

"Personal" problems

Reliance on the first language

Low motivation

Lack of ideas

"Technic" problems

Weak structure organization

Use of connectors and cohesive devices

Lack of coherence

Difficulties on syntax: sentence construction

Grammar mistakes

Lack of vocabulary knowledge