Spur students to brainstorm ideas and delivering a presentation as classroom management strategies in essay writing

الملخص EN

As a productive skill, writing is one of the final complex skills for language learning process because it requires mastery of previous many skills.

This research is about how to teach essay writing skill by using two classroom management strategies which are spur students to brainstorm ideas strategy and delivering a presentation strategy in Iraqi private college, Imam Jafar Al-Sadiq University.

It is essential for teachers to make students engage and negotiate in their classroom questions to enrich their learning process and to write notes and drafts during essay writing lessons.

Thus students gain the ability to express their concepts and thoughts in writing essays and master their production.

The study aimed at finding out the differences between the mean scores of students' essay writing.

The students were assigned into three groups: two experimental, and one control.

The first experimental group was taught essay writing according to spur students to brainstorm ideas strategy, while the second group was taught according to delivering a presentation strategy.

The control group was taught according to the conventional way of teaching.

It is hypothesized that: 1- There is no statistically significant difference between writing mean score of the students who are taught using spur students to brainstorm ideas strategy and that of students who are taught according to the traditional method.2- There is no statistically significant difference between writing mean score of the students who are taught using delivering a presentation strategy and that of the students who are taught according to the traditional method.

The results showed that the first experimental group was more influential and unique nature to English Foreign Language learners than the second one.