Abstract:
Automating graphic skills has the potential to help language learners
perform well in writing skills. Graphic skills are essential to automate low
capacity learners in ESL classrooms. Reading and writing are graphic skills.
Reading is a receptive skill and writing is a productive skill. Reading gives
a comprehensible input for internal mental and collaborative learning to
automate the low-capacity students’ writing skills. Reading provides concepts
in a particular area which builds up the confidence to use language for formal
and informal writing. There was a huge gap between the current pedagogical
expectation and the students’ achievement in writing skills. Thus, this study
was an attempt to investigate the effect of the ‘Wrauding’ technique to fill the
prevailing gap in the ESL classroom. Wrauding refers to Rauding leading to
writing skills. Low-capacity learners in ESL classrooms want much support to
automatize their writing skills. The study focuses on giving language inputs
through concept building, reading and auding incorporating the idea of
micro-level text processing skills. Thus, the researcher uses a psycho-applied
linguistic approach to enhance the internal voice of the learners which
plays a crucial role in essay writing skills. To achieve this goal, two intact
classes of students were selected to form an experimental group (n=20)
and a control group (n=20). A pre-test (based on the course content) was
given to all participants. The participants in the experimental group were
familiarized with ‘Wrauding’ pedagogical techniques. In the control group,
the conventional approach to teaching was used. Comparing the results of
the post-test through ANCOVA showed that implementation of ‘Wrauding’
techniques can significantly affect ESL learners’ writing ability. Therefore,
‘Wrauding’ can improve writing ability since its process has taken psycho
applied Linguistic perspectives that provide i+1 input for automatizing
writing skills of Upper secondary ESL learners. Internal voice activation (IVA)
and concept building for automating internal communication served a lot to
activate students to participate actively in the essay writing classroom. The
syllabus designers and ELT practitioners can use it for better results in essay
writing.
