Teaching Academic Writing for Advanced Level Grade 10 English
Abstract Teaching academic English writing to high school learners is quite challenging. As a teacher, you need to consider the learners background, and their knowledge of English with their strengths and weaknesses. Teachers need to adopt research based methods of L2 teaching since research based methods have been successful in helping L2 learners produce writing that is a satisfactory level of linguistic proficiency and mastery of academic writing. Moreover, teachers have to modify their classes according to their learners various needs. Techniques vary and what works with one learner does not necessarily work for another. Yet, research also reveals that by following certain strategies, academic writing can be acquired more efficiently, particularly when learners have a high level of English proficiency. This study follows the qualitative research method since it is an action research. An essay template was developed for the learners to follow in order to teach them academic writing. The data is composed of the participants pre post essays that were evaluated using the Common Core State Standards Writing Rubric. The participants are the learners of Grade 10 advanced level, at LWIS CiS, DT. The results reveal that following the designed essay template has improved the learners academic writing and therefore, the researchers recommend using the template.