PRODUCTIVE SKILLS AND LANGUAGE LEARNING DIFFICULTIES

Abstract

Learning a foreign language requires acquiring language skills and subskills. Skills are divided into productive and receptive. One of the important productive skills is writing. This skill involves accuracy, fluency, and content. Doing writing tasks includes a different kind of mental process. It obviously affects the blending of attention, fine motor coordination, memory, visual processing language, higher-order thinking. While acquiring these productive skills one could face some language learning difficulties. The writing difficulties may cause the destruction of a writing process called dysgraphia. It is a learning disorder in which the individuals writing skills are below the level expected for his or her age and cognitive level. The extent of difficulty a learner experiences with a different process of writing should inform steps to remediation and utilizing different types of writing approaches. There are already well-known approaches for teaching writing, and this article links these approaches with effective use for children with disorders of written expressions.