Developing Writing Skills At Upper Primary Level: An Experiment

There is a dire need to develop expressional skills in English right from the primary section in India. There are mainly four language skills ie. Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing. Listening and Reading are known as receptive skills where as Writing and Speaking are known as productive or expressional skills. Speaking and Writing are easily noticeable. Talking about writing in compare to speaking is more official and serious. It is rightly said, the more practice you do the better result you get. Keeping this in mind, the researcher tried to carry out a research on developing writing skills among the upper primary students. Second language learners of two schools affiliated to Gujarat State Education Board were selected randomly for the study. The study was both qualitative and quantitative in nature. The research was true experiment. Out of these two, one school was kept as control and the other school was kept as experimental. The students of control group were not given any treatment as they studied such contents from their regular school teacher. The pre test was administered to equal the groups. The students were made to study through activity based sessions. The finding of the study was the activity package was useful in developing writing skills among the students of experimental group. Students developed the understanding of basic format and terminologies of developing writing skills. The students also developed various styles of writing. The programme was equally effective on both male and female students of experimental group. The students became responsible and systematic while preparing any type of draft. Key Words: : Writing skills, activity package