Pre Writing Strategies for Beginners EFL Studensts

Abstract

To make students write, we teachers of writing have to get them involve  with some activities. We keep them up and make them go through some stages of writing before they are assigned to do ‘real’ writing. The activities involve and occupy them both in groups or individually  to experience some  processes of learning like thinking, focusing on a specific topic , discussing and revising . Focusing on writing about things they like or interested in help them  enliven communication and avoid writing block. This article introduce  some pre writing strategies, alternatives the students can choose and motivate them to write better. They are ; 1).listing Ideas, 2).Free writing, 3). Brainstorming, 4).Preparing a scratch outline, 5). Guided writing and 6).Summarizing a reading selection.