Investigating challenges encountered by Secondary School teachers while teaching Paragraph Writing A case study of third year pupils of foreign languages classes at Marzoug Cherif, Bouraoui Laaridi Sadek, Ayadi Ali secondary schools in EL TAREF.

Abstract

The objective of this current study is to investigate the challenges encountered by secondary school teachers at Merzoug Cherif, Bouraou Laaridi Sadek, and Ayadi Ali secondary schools in EL-TAREF while teaching (PW) for third year pupils of Foreign Languages classes. It aims at to finding out the different challenges teachers face and the solutions they apply to overcome these obstacles and enhance pupils’ writing proficiency. To test the research hypotheses, a descriptive method is adopted as the most appropriate method to carry out the study. Two questionnaires were administrated to both secondary school teachers and pupils at Marzoug Cherife, Bouraoui Laaridi Sadek in EL-TAREF, and Ayadi Ali in Boutelja EL-TAREF during the academic year (2018/2019). The research is composed of four (4) chapters: chapter one covered the literature review related to writing skill and paragraph writing. The second chapter dealt with the situation analyses and research design. Third chapter tackled the analyses of data gathered from pupils’ and teachers’ questionnaire. The fourth chapter dealt with the discussion of research finding and recommendations. Through the current study our hypotheses are validated and our research questions improved that secondary school teachers face serious challenges while teaching (PW) for third year pupils of Foreign Languages classes which hinder the process of teaching writing skill and paragraph writing effectively these challenges are: pupils’ lack of motivation, low level, lack of vocabularies, poor background, and pupils L1 interference as well as the lack of time devoted to teach writing skill and the inefficiency of the textbook which sets only situation that do not feed pupils’ level and interests. The result revealed that these challenges are the result of difficulties pupils face while writing such as: lack of vocabularies and background, the wrong use of verb tense, prepositions, and punctuation marks. To overcome General Conclusion 86 these challenges teachers applied effective solutions that helped in enhancing pupils writing proficiency. Teachers suggested that more time should be devoted to teach writing skill and paragraph writing by planning (TD) sessions, topics must have a relation with pupils’ real life situations, asking pupils to write a summary of the lesson at the end of the session or a summary of story as a home work so that pupils’ get more familiar with the writing skill, organize the writing lesson in motivating and entertaining way like videos, visual aids, group work to motivate pupils to participate and write an effective piece of writing, provide pupils with layout of paragraph, hints, and examples to write and guide them to be interested in writing, finally encourage pupils to read more because reading consider the best solution to enhance and develop pupils writing proficiency. After the application of these solutions teachers strongly agree that pupils writing proficiency developed and pupils become able to produce a successful piece of writing which is clear and understood to the reader.