Organization of Descriptive Writing with Reference to the Writings of the Students of Certificate Course in English for School Leavers, Uva Wellassa University of Sri Lanka

G.H. Abeyweera

doi:10.22161/ijels.63.15

Abstract

Organization of Descriptive Writing with Reference to the Writings of the Students of Certificate Course in English for School Leavers, Uva Wellassa University of Sri Lanka

Highlights

English Language is taught as Second Language (ESL) in the context of Sri Lanka which is the medium of higher education, research (Arnet, L.2001 & Jonson, S. 1996)) has proved that it is needed further emphasis on Teaching English as a Second Language
The difficulties that one finds are due to many aspects beginning from the use or selection of words, accurate grammatical compositions, typology, punctuation to the more complex aspects of writing such as generating ideas and organizing these ideas together in logical manner in producing meaningful descriptive texts
A qualitative research methodology was used to describe the organization of students’ writing through schematic structure, thematic choices and thematic development shaping their writing in the in manner of employment of words. for this, fifty leaners of the Certificate Course in English for School Leavers (CCESL) were selected and the data collection was done by informing them that their written assignments be used for this particular purpose for ethical clearance

Summary

INTRODUCTION

English Language is taught as Second Language (ESL) in the context of Sri Lanka which is the medium of higher education, research (Arnet, L.2001 & Jonson, S. 1996)) has proved that it is needed further emphasis on Teaching English as a Second Language. The four skills (both Receptive & Productive skills) listening, reading and speaking and writing are salient in mastering a language including English Language. The difficulties that one finds are due to many aspects beginning from the use or selection of words, accurate grammatical compositions, typology, punctuation to the more complex aspects of writing such as generating ideas and organizing these ideas together in logical manner in producing meaningful descriptive texts. Organization of Descriptive Writing with Reference to the Writings of the Students of Certificate piece of writing on any give topic is more than that It is truly organizing one’s ideas on a given topic in a logical manner in which precision, clarity, sense, objective and readability are included to produce an understandable written corpus which is called organization of a written text The sample texts were analyzed by employing schematic structure in determining the nature or the type of the text and thematic choice to determine how learners produce written texts and them development to determine how learners organize their texts by employing frequently used manner of constructions

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