Action Research on: English Writing Skill of the Tertiary Level Students of the Colleges of Dhaka City, Bangladesh

Abstract

This action research, though in a miniature scale, has aimed at finding out the condition of English writing skill of the tertiary level students studying in the colleges of Dhaka City in Bangladesh.  It explores that the target students’ writing skill is faulty (lexically, structurally, and cohesively). It also finds that if the students are taught this skill according to appropriate language teaching principles and methods, they are, in most cases, receptive and improve considerably.

Keywords: action research, tertiary level students, writing skill, language teaching method