Enhancing basic writing skills in english through classroom activities at the tertiary level with special focus on the slow learners in the new college

The aim of this paper is to design tasks to enhance basic writing skills in English for the slow learners at the selected college. When the learners enter undergraduate programmes, they face difficulties in drafting their ideas in English because they had studied in their regional medium. The designed tasks provide the learners to practice writing confidently in English. This paper provides both the theoretical and practical aspects of the designed tasks. The major purpose is to integrate recent research and practice in teaching basic writing skills through various tasks and find out whether the designed tasks are effective for enhancing basic writing skills of the slow learners at the tertiary level. The ideas presented are relevant to teachers working in or preparing for a range of teaching situations with slow learners. This study attempts to check seven tasks in the selected classrooms and to analyse outputs from the learners' perception on writing in English.