Strategy Training To Enhance Learners' Performance In Writing: Strategy-based Instruction In Writing

This paper tries to define the language learning strategies, to identify those required by the writing skill and to show our learners' need for strategy training in the skill. It also attempts to suggest some practical classroom activities that reduce learners' and teachers' anxiety and make both benefit from the classroom environment to enhance learners' writing process and production. Strategy-Based Instruction can be of help to both teachers and learners in order to develop self-monitoring and self/ peer evaluation skills through cooperative writing response groups. Key Terms : Strategy-Based Instruction / self-monitoring cooperative writing response groups /continuous assessment / self - peer-assessment.