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ELT Journal 1986 40(4):291-298; doi:10.1093/elt/40.4.291
© 1986 by Oxford University Press
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Writing English script: an overlooked skill

Wendy E. Ball

Wendy Ball graduated in 1977 and has worked numerous and varied English-language institutions since 1979, most recently in Iraq.

Over the past two years I have made a study of the handwriting and layout capabilities of Arabic-script writers, and I have come to believe that this aspect of language learning offers tangible evidence that certain students are lacking an important language-learning skill, hitherto forgotten or ignored: the skill of understanding and using the graphic structure of a written foreign language. In this article I wish first to describe the symptoms which occur when this skill is lacking. I then hope to identify and define this skill, assessing its importance. I will look at present-day methods involving this skill, and finally offer some recommendations for change.


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