Some Practical Implications to Students Writing Failure

Gaining skills and confidence in foreign language writing can open up opportunities and empower learners to take on new roles as citizens within the community. It provides a powerful means as self-expression as well as a support for further learning and research. It is no surprise that university-level educators are challenged to rethink and revise some of the approaches and goals in teaching writing in order to effectively prepare students to successfully accomplish the memoir and other research papers. Improving students' written performance requires both time and work. It is, then, the role of the teacher is to enhance and emphasize its communicative functions. Based on a previous case study on university students' writing deficit, the present communication aims at suggesting some pedagogical implications that might cater for university students' difficulties in writing in general and other sub-skills in particular. It also emphasizes the reading-writing relationship introducing the writing workshop and collaborative writing with a stress on the writing conference and the remedy sessions to deal with students' writing errors. Last but not least, a multimedia approach for writing is suggested to add a context and purpose for writing, which are both motivating and meaningful.