Brainstorming techniques and writing skill

Abstract

As one of the language skills, writing is one of the communicative skills, which can help us to express, share ideas, feelings, and opinions in written language. Besides, writing becomes a challenging skill that students have to face while learning a foreign language. For that reason, teachers should implement and establish innovative and creative writing process and techniques to enhance written production. Indeed, the present investigative work aimed to analyze the influence of brainstorming techniques on writing skill in students of tenth grade at Unidad Educativa “Hispano América”. Thus, this research was based on a pre-experimental design and quantitative research method which involved a group of 41 students. Consequently, 20 females and 21 males with an age range of 13 to 14 years old. Furthermore, 6 interventions were applied in the treatment. The data was collected through a pre-test and post-test from the Key English Test (KET), writing section part 7, by Cambridge examination for A2 learners. Moreover, the KET Cambridge English Writing Rubric was implemented to analyze the students´ writing performance before and after the interventions. Likewise, the KET writing rubric was implemented to evaluate the written texts of the interventions in order to identify the most successful brainstorming techniques. Subsequently, the results were analyzed using the SPSS statistic program and a non-parametric test for two related Wilcoxon samples and it showed a significant difference in the results from the beginning and at the end of the treatment. Finally, the findings revealed great progress and improvement in students´ writing skill through the implementation of brainstorming techniques.