Assessing Students Writing Strategies and Training on Efl Learners Paragraph Paragraph writing Skills: Grade Ten in Focus

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to assess grade 10 students' paragraph writing problems, because the student cannot write a paragraph due to different factors. The Study was carried out in Bita millennium Secondary School with special reference to Grade 10 students in focus . Quasi experimental case study was employed to address the problem. Conduct the study, grade 10 section A students were chosen as experimental group and section B as control group. Random sampling techniques were used. All these students wrote four paragraph types. For focus g roup discussion, fifteen Students were selected using random sampling technique. On the other hand, five teachers Who teach grade ten sections were also chosen through random sampling technique. In order to achieve the objectives, the study employed three questionnaire document Analysis, focus group discussion and semi-structured interview. Document analysis was Employed to identify features of students paragraph writing Factors that affect students' paragraph writing problems were identified. Furthermore, Semi-structured interview was used to obtain information about what teachers think, Experience and do regarding to students' paragraph types writing. All data collected using Different tools were analyzed qualitatively and quantitively But to make the data manageable and Understandable, students' written paragraph types only analyzed quantitatively, and qualitatively. The study Identified the major paragraph types writing problems that students encounter. These are lack Of knowledge about paragraph types, lack of paragraph types writing experience in lower grade levels before joining grade 10 problem of Identifying topic, supporting and concluding Sentence: problem of keeping unity, coherence, completeness and length in the paragraph. . They hav e also knowledge gap about writing approaches and writing strategies. is there a significance diff erence between experimental and control group paragraph writing performance? Significance of the s study is hoped to be useful for Engli sh Ianguage teachers, students, a nd sy II abus and curriculum desi gners. The scope of the study in Bitta millenn ium secondary school in Bitt a woreda south west but the research limited by di fferent factor like computer, material a nd financial problem. The students shoul d practice paragraph writi ng not onIy in school , but al so in home.