Improving English Writing Skills of Undergraduate Students from Engineering Colleges in Andhra Pradesh Region

Abstract

English Language Learning has emerged as a global tool of learner empowerment. It enriches the learner with the basic and most vital skill of the contemporary world: communication. To sensitize the students towards the use of language, appropriate materials, activities, and tasks are to be used by the learner in the classroom. Thus, this work is focused on implementing the product approach and process approach. The pre-service learners were not able to employ the process approach which is favored by researchers in preparing the students to be better writers due to the need for accurate sentence formation with perfect grammar rules and students’ preparation in producing error-free final product. This study recommends the use of the suggested time framework for undergraduate students to practice the strategies of process approach and the free writing strategy of the product approach to help students in producing more independent written text beyond the sample texts or input. The researcher has implemented these two approaches in various engineering colleges in Andhra Pradesh region. From the statistical analysis, it is said that both approaches are useful to improve the English writing skills of undergraduate students.