An analysis of teaching writing to first- year EFL students at tlemcen university-Algeria

الملخص EN

In Algeria, the teaching of English as a foreign language is of great importance in academic, professional and international domains.

It has been given much concern after the advent of the globalisation process.

However, and despite huge efforts devoted for so many years at improving learners’ achievement in EFL, the results are still unsatisfactory whether in the spoken or written mode.

Our centre of interest in the present research work is the teaching of writing to first-year EFL students at the English section of Tlemcen University (ALGERIA) and its elaboration towards better learning.

This work attempts to investigate about the current EFL writing skill teaching.

It aims first, at identifying first-year English students’ writing difficulties; second, discovering the causes behind these difficulties and finally finding out possible solutions that are hoped to alleviate the problem and help students improve their writing proficiency level.